Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antidote for creeping despair.

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

She says that each of us has his or her role in life, and if we know ourselves well enough to understand what that role is, we will be happy doing nothing but what we can do best.

My only armor is my belief that life has meaning...

So many things in my continuing education are learned by going where I have to go and doing what I have to do. Therefore, my only answer is: "I guess I'll find out.

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.

We don't have time for such uncertainty because it reliably breeds indecision, and indecision is one of the mothers of failure.

She is a girl who feels things strongly, and though cynics might mock her for that, I never will, as it is perhaps the best of graces: to feel deeply, to care profoundly.

...guilt is deserved only when the effort to resist evil is never made.

But the universe in its immensity is nevertheless of a piece, and what applies at one end of it applies at the other. No doubt misery, like happiness and hope, is found throughout the stars.

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

If a word in the dictionary were mispelled, how would we know?

Dreams come true with much work.

He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounce his liberty and humanity.

It is quite lovely being single, and I much prefer it.

There is no time left for anything but to make peace work a dimension of our every waking activity.

Men would not live in society long if they were not each others dupes.

The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent.

A stable 21st century society requires 21st century solutions not 20th century economics

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.

The only thing you deserve is what you earn