If you don't tell the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth about your own life, someone may claim the right to tell it for you.

My mother preferred trees to certain kinds of people. Increasingly, as I get older I have to admit that I occasionally understand her preference.

A church service starts and ends with a prayer. A magazine starts and ends with an advert.

Love loves anarchy. It loves to wreak havoc. It loves to dance atop the ruins.

With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought.

When I'm manic, I'm so awake and alert, that my eyelashes fluttering on the pillow sound like thunder.

You are always going to face forces that can bring you to your knees.

The bible tells us to be grateful in every situation. I am grateful for mine.

The Puritan sours his pleasures by disguising them as duties.

I did not have a reputation to defend.

Study, therefore, to withdraw the love of your soul from all things that are visible, and turn it to things that are invisible.

I don't wear heels every day, but when I'm out, that's how I feel confident.