The summer moon hung full in the sky. For the time being it was the great fact of the world.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

Waking up is the dangerous act of worship. It's dangerous because worship is meant to produce lives fully attentive to reality as God sees it, and that's more than most of us want to deal with.

It was to be a day of queer experiences. He had never realized with how many miracles mere everyday life is besieged.

You gotta play the hand that's dealt you. There may be pain in that hand but you play it.

While you cannot resolve what you are at last you will be nothing.

The idea is to die young as late as possible.

Everything I do I get criticized, but I don't care because that's the stuff I believe in and put my heart in to.

I’m letting God write my love story because once upon a time, I took control of it and it didn’t work well.

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.

If only I kept my eye on the ball, Looking downward as does the pro there, I might not see where it was going, at all, But there might be a chance it would go there.