Prayer changes things.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Best smiles come after the toughest time.

Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

If God is for us, who can be against us?

If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

Why not learn to enjoy the little things-there are so many of them.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

God helps those who help themselves.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

Listen, if you're not going to be a nun or something, you might as well laugh.

I think the Democratic Party realizes, having lost two presidential elections, we need to do a better job of creating a farm team.

Justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn.

Without English art, I never would have understood myself, my own family, or the New England world I lived in.