The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

All that is gold does not glitter.Not all those who wander are lost:The old that is strong does not wither.Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

God Himself is not secure having given man dominion over His work.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

I think you have to have a personal connection, and that's what I am always looking to try to create: a personal way in to a story.

It's a fundamental human right to decide to have children or not to have children.

The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow and flourish as before.

Art thou in the darkness? Mind it not, for if thou dost it will feed thee more. But stand still, and act not, and wait in patience, till light arises out of darkness and leads thee.

Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen.

Hope has never trickled down, it has always sprung up.

You don't want your readers seeing easy connections; it becomes a distraction.