It is terribly amusing how many different climates of feelings one can go through in one day.

The most exhausting thing in life is being insincere.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.

Men kick friendship around like a football, but it doesn't seem to crack. Women treat it like glass and it goes to pieces.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.

My passport photo is one of the most remarkable photographs I have ever seen- no retouching, no shadows, no flattery-just stark me.

When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can see people's lives transform more and more into the image of Christ.

When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

The process of book writing for me is entirely one of trial and error.

Most people are ego-sensitive, not life-sensitive.

Beware of putting all your focus into results. While results are important, your people should be your number one area of focus.

Whatever a leader does now sets up what he does later. And there's always a later.

In school, nobody could pronounce my name. They just called me Rocky.

There are no funny lawyers - only funny people who made a career mistake.

Everybody at home speaks mandarin except me.

Mel Gibson would not be a good James Bond