Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".

Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.

How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.

Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.

I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.

Except heaven is a hope, and eden is a memory .

We experience a discomfort that may be foreign to others, but that pain opens up a world of beauty. Wouldn't you think?

A book is just as magical to write as it is to read, it takes you on a journey that changes you in the end.

Love is a perpetual journey that is extraordinary because it will never find itself terminated by a destination.

Courage is not a virtue or value among other personal values like love or fidelity. It is the foundations that underlies and gives reality to all other virtue and personal values. (p. 13)

I suppose we all lie to ourselves sometimes.

We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion and if we were sure stifling it would be an evil still.

Don't go through life, grow through life.

Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.

I like a man with faults, especially when he knows it. To err is human

Hopefully the new breed of kids won't have to go through that hard lesson - my kids, my grandkids, my fans' kids, hopefully they won't have to go through it.

I'm not going to rush anything and scamper around like a mad person and make myself crazy.