It is healthier, in any case, to write for the adults one's children will become than for the children one's 'mature' critics often are.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming.

Whenever you are creating beauty around you, you are restoring your own soul.

I don’t need a certain number of friends, just a number of friends I can be certain of.

Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future.

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

The goal is essential to getting what you would like." ##

The spiritual life of any congregation and its growth in grace will never exceed the high-water mark set by its pulpit.

This isn't a man who is leaving with his head between his legs.

Often, the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong.

It's time to teach our daughters that their ability to be good people depends on their being good people, not on whether or not they're sexually active.

There’s nothing more fierce than the female, like the momma lion. Believe me, my wife is a good example.

The highest virtue is not virtuous. Therefore it has virtue. The lowest virtue holds on to virtue. Therefore it has no virtue.

The quality of the box matters little. Success depends upon the man who sits in it.

Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon our souls.

Why can’t you ever answer a simple question? (Wulf) Ask me a simple question and you will get a simple answer. (Acheron)