Now the ears of my ears awake and now the eyes of my eyes are opened.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

To be nobody-but-yourself - in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.

Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.

Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.

For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.

The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

I am calling it a journey because the beauty of reading is, while you are reading you are in the same phase and the same mood the book is offering for as many days you continue to read.

Eagerly examine the Scriptures daily for spiritual growth.

Modern society is a biological disaster masquerading as progress.

Broken hearts made faults and fools of us all.

Wilderness is a temporary condition through which we are passing to the Promised Land.

It is more important to be of service than successful.

The waterwheel accepts water and turns and gives it away, weeping.

It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people.

Loving a thing is shallow, only if you don't deeply appreciate its emotional value.