The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.

She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.

A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

I see you everywhere, in the stars, in the river, to me you're everything that exists; the reality of everything.

The only advice ... that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions.

No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

Religious man was born to be saved, psychological man is born to be pleased.

What victory would the Devil have to win a soul already bad? It is the best the Devil wants, and who is better than the minister." - Rev. John Hale

An intense life needs a touch of madness.

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

Don't ever put anything past kids. They will surprise you in the best ways.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

It is difficult to thinkof any circumstances where learning may be said to be impossible.

Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear- love did.

Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?

A baseball game is twice as much fun if you're seeing it on the company's time.