If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.

We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy the process.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Like it or not, we either add to the darkness of indifference and out-and-out evil which surrounds us or we light a candle to see by.

Creativity comes from accepting that you're not safe, from being absolutely aware, and from letting go of control. It's a matter of seeing everything - even when you want to shut your eyes.

It was a dark and stormy night.

Because we fail to listen to each other's stories, we are becoming a fragmented human race.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

If you don't care about money, Nina dear, call it by its other names.""Kruge? Scrub? Kaz's one true love?""Freedom, security, retribution.

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.

There's always the danger that the extreme feminist will end up quite unfulfilled as a girl.

True simplicity is elegant.

Naturalism teaches one of the most important things in this world. There is only this life, so live wonderfully and meaningfully.

A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning.

A man who loses his privacy loses everything. And a man who gives it up of his own free will is a monster.

It was strange, how readily authority could be conjured with nothing but a bit of strutting jackassery.

Most people can tire of a lecture in fifteen minutes, clever people can do it in five, and sensible people don't go to lectures at all.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.