The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

The sun is still there... even if clouds drift over it. Once you have experienced the reality of sunshine you may weep, but you will never feel ice about your heart again.

She long ago accepted the fact that happiness is like, swallows in spring. It may come and nest under your eaves or it may not. You cannot command it.

All human beings have their otherness and it is that which cries out to the heart.

In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

Happy the man who lives long enough to acknowledge his ignorance

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Each generation of the church in each setting has the responsibility of communicating the gospel in understandable terms, considering the language and thought-forms of that setting.

Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot.

In the morning, you tear up the pages of your fever, but every word naturally leads you back to its color, its night.

I eat a lot of ice cream, chocolate, and cookies, and I drink rosé champagne.

The folks I read as a kid really set me up. I owe a huge debt to Ray Bradbury and Madeleine L'Engle.

Why should women have to fit into child sizes in order to be considered desirable? That is both sick and depressing.

When you're a plebeian you want success, and when you're successful you want to be a plebeian again

You still need to understand what your fundamental and primary jobs are you have to make sure that you execute those before you can really dabble into something else.

Children pay more attention to what you do than to what you say.