Sincere prayer is answered by unfailing grace.

The brightest stars emerge out of the blackest darkness

God gives us opportunity to serve him by serving humanity

Pray with a pure heart and pray from where you are. God will answer your prayers. There is no need to abandon the world or retreat to a jungle.

The essence of right living is to do good to others.

Worship offered with stale flowers and an unclean mind is of no value.

Seek not material wealth, seek the Lord who owns it all

Surrender yourself to God and be at peace with him.

He who practices sheel (virtue) and sayyam (self-restrain) attains to greatness

You don't have to disrespect and insult others simply to hold your own ground. If you do, that shows how shaky your own position is.

He is fiddling while Rome is burning, and, unlike the enormous majority of people who do this, fiddling with his face toward the flames.

Ben's words called to my heart. Instead of responding with terror, it opened like a fist uncurling, as though it had been waiting twenty-six years just to hear his voice.

There is a connection between self-nurturing and self-respect.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

I wouldn't call myself a feminist, because I think there are differences between men and women.

I have seldom written a story, long or short, that I did not have to write and rewrite. There are single stories of mine that have taken me ten or twelve years to get written.

Take a few minutes of every day to fantasize about how you would wander, travel, or explore if you could.

Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining.