New things are always ugly.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

What the pundits call wishy-washiness, the Bible calls repentance.

I had evolved a year too soon, and it nearly broke me

Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.

... being with people who don't understand is worse than being alone with her grief.

The second you change the way you look at a situation, your stress levels drop.

The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.

If you want to live in the fullness of God's anointing, fill your mouth with His Word.

If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.

My children are living, thinking human beings. It isn't in my power to regret them, for they belong to themselves.

I can't say it strongly enough; to integrate meditation in action is the whole ground and point and purpose of meditation