Our little room was morbidly quiet and sorrow was heaped in my corner like dirty snow.

There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.

The coffee was so strong it snarled as it lurched out of the pot.

a grudge will soon rot the pocket you carry it in.

In the country Sunday is the day on which you do exactly as much work as you do on other days but feel guilty all the time you are doing it because Sunday is a day of rest.

I'll do it because I want to but not because you tell me to!

Dare we face the question of just how much of the darkness around us is of our own making?

In the country, weather is as important as food and sometimes means the difference between life and death.

Gammy used to say, 'Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things.'

Of course the reason that all the children in our town like Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle is because Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle likes children, she enjoys talking to them and best of all they do not irritate her.

Gammy used to say "Too much scrubbing takes the life right out of things."

I feel like my maybe someday just became my right now.

Here we are, you and I, and I hope that Christ makes a third with us. No one can interrupt us now... So come now, dearest friend, reveal your heart and speak your mind." (p. 29)

An applause is not just the recognition of good performance, but its proof of being different than the crowd.

Without adventure civilization is in full decay.

You can root for someone who's imperfect.

Sports are, and should be, a joy. And it delights me that the joy I felt through the years of broadcasting games was projected onto the audience.

Keep your happiness where it can't be hurt: in Christ.

We invent our technologies and then we turn around and use our technologies to reinvent ourselves as individuals, communities and cultures.

I have always had fun playing the game of baseball because I loved it so much.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.