O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.

Whether our days trip along like the angels mounting on Jacob's ladder to heaven or grind along like the wagons that Joseph sent for Jacob, they are in each case ordered by God's mercy.

Freedom, you see, is having events go in accordance with our will, never contrary to it.

Youth is an unrecoverable asset. Unless you are a hydra, lucky you.

Aren't we lucky to be us?

There was a time when you were not. There never will be a time when you will not be.

I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.

When you get your powers, you learn a lot about yourself. My professors called me mad. It was time for me to stop punishing myself, and start punishing everybody else.

there are policemen in the street and angels in the clouds

every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.

You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.

If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.