Meet every man as you find him, for we're all made the same under habit, robe or rags. Some better made than others, and some better cared for, but on the same pattern, all.

God, nevertheless, required a little help from men, and what he mostly got was hindrance.

I think there are some who live on a knife-edge in the soul, and at times are driven to hurl themselves into the air, at the mercy of heaven or he'll which way to fall.

It's a kind of arrogance to be so certain you're past redemption.

When harried, we go as far as we dare, and with those we're sure of we dare go very far, knowing where forgiveness is certain.

a soul is far too large to hide.

Gardening is, apart from having children, the most rewarding thing in life

Decision-making power, whether it's on foreign affairs or domestic affairs, is concentrated in the White House in a reasonably small circle.

I was just genuinely shy. I'd always been a shy kid.

Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.

I hope that each of you girls will become an individual of significant worth and a person of virtue so that your contributions are maintained in both human and eternal terms.

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

If we successful, we will enter into the history of mountaineering, we will have the opportunity to its success to sacrifice our colleagues.

Maybe our mistakes are what make our fate. Without them, what would shape our lives? Perhaps, if we never veered off course, we wouldn't fall in love or have babies or be who we are.

Lies were like acid, corrosive: They could dissolve trust in a heartbeat.