Then he returned to Mabel and put his mouth to her ear. I'd never let anything happen to you. You know that, don't you?

A boy trying out a man's language.

It was as if she had reached into her own pocket and discovered a small pebble, as hard as a diamond, that she had forgotten belonged to her.

Why was it always the woman's fate to pace and fret and wait?

There's been a lot to get used to here." Esther laughed. "Isn't that the truth. I don't know if you ever get used to it really. It just gets in your blood so that you can't stand to be anywhere else.

He stood there a moment, listened to the creek, and let the mountain air blow against his face. Even with all this heartache, it was beautiful here.

We have been chosen and called to be like Jesus Christ.

In order to be a better writer, one must always write.

Every problem has a solution. You may not see it in front of you, but, sooner or later, a solution will appear before your eyes.

There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.

Love comes to those who believe it, and that's the way it is.

The facts: nothing matters but the facts: worship of the facts leads to everything, to happiness first of all and then to wealth.

The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood.

The published record will show that many in Chicago have mixed feedback on the President's [Barack Obama] role as organizer.

But if a few awake, you can't say there is no hope of destroying the iron house.

Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money?