They're book addicts.

Just knowing that they could read made the Baudelaire orphans feel as if their wretched lives could be a little brighter.

Sunny did not eat the wood, of course, but she chewed on it and pretended it was a carrot, or an apple, or a beef and cheese enchilada, all of which she loved.

I can't believe she's lived this long. God must be avoiding her.

What God says you are is more important than what others think of you.

When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe then you co-operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You being yourself help others be themselves.

Society becomes very destructive.

One compromise here, another there and soon enough the so-called Christian and the man in the world look the same.

I think everyone sometimes feels intimidated by themselves when they see themselves on the screen.

Repetition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen.

For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.

Each day's a gift of Life divine a precious jewel that's yours and mine!

All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God.