If, one day, I should offend God in any way, or grow remiss, though ever so little, in that which concerns His holy service and glory, I solemnly implore Him, rather let me die.

Whatever you are doing, that which makes you feel the most alive...that is where God is.

Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.

All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.

For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.

He who carries God in his heart bears Heaven with him wherever he goes.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

It is not hard to obey when we love the one whom we obey.

Love ought to show itself in deeds more than in words.

To conquer himself is the greatest victory that man can gain.

Let us work as if success depended upon ourselves alone, but with heartfelt conviction that we are doing nothing, and God everything.

He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.

She couldn’t get any farther away inside from her skin. She couldn’t get away.

Some men will never be heroes, some heroes will never be men, he thought, with urgent acknowledgements to Joseph Conrad.

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

There should be no inferiors and no superiors for true world friendship.

[The Women's Room] is one of those pieces of fiction that reveals itself in a different way every time. It's incredible.

I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said.

Hendrix rehearsed different drummers, before we met Mitch Mitchell.

There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.

Of course it hurts", she grumbled, tipping my head further back. "Life sucks. Get over it