It is a destiny of a woman to suffer in silence.

I held my breath and wished for that moment to last as long as it possibly could, because a waking dream is always more fleeting than a sleeping one.

The line of head is strong, but the line of heart is weak. And most importantly, the line of life is short. The stars do not seem to be right.

Train journeys are about possibilities. They denote a change in state. When you arrive, you are no longer the same person who departed.

Travel teaches as much as a teacher.

Dreams were frail things, when all was said, and loneliness the only certainty.

No one can grasp the love of the God of the universe without knowing His Son.

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

A system needs to be alive and workable even when other people than the first enthusiasts start using it. Reinvention and revolution are enthusiast stuff. Invention and evolution are engineering.

You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.

You wouldn’t know it by looking, but I had no teeth in first grade.

I am not on Facebook. I'm not on Instagram. I only use Twitter, which I wish I didn't.

When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.

American Christianity is based more on a godless culture than it is the word of God.