Those who are vain have little ability to feel grateful.

The shelf was filled with books that were hard to read, that could devastate and remake one's soul, and that, when they were finished, had a kick like a mule.

There is justice in the world, Peter Lake, but it cannot be had without mystery.

Quite possibly there's nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That's when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.

their powerlessness, innocence, and imagination fused to enable them to turn time inside out, travel on the wind, and enter the souls of animals.

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

The beauty of truth is that it need not be proclaimed or believed. It skips from soul to soul, changing form each time it touches, but it is what it is, I have seen it, and someday you will, too.

Small scenes can be so beautiful that they change a man forever.

Physical features count little unless they are illumined from within.

For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.

She felt as if she knew the stars, and had been among them, or would be.

Keep planting new seeds until your mind becomes the earth that gives birth to new worlds.

To suffer together is to suffer with beauty...

Do others see something of Christ in your life? Do they see a “family resemblance” to Him by the way you live?

Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest.

When you grow up surrounded by willful ignorance, you have to believe that mercy has it's own country and that it's round and borderless.

The easiest thing is to make sure you feel happy and satisfied in this moment. Setting long term goals is much more effort taking, but at the same time much more fulfilling.

I met this girl, she was an actress, and she gave me her number. It started with 555.

The problem of the universal is difficult in every case. The universal and the particular can never be separated; they always go hand in hand.

If you don't take change by the hand, it will take you by the throat.