Though there had been moments of beauty in it, Mariam knew that life for most part has been unkind to her. But as she walked the final twenty paces, she could not help but wish for more of it.

Attention shifted to him like sunflowers turning to the sun.

hills that stand soft and a sky that stands high and blue, and the sun setting behind a windmill, and always, always, hazy strings of mountains that fall and fall away on the horizon.

One could not count the moons that shimmer on her roofs, Or the thousand splendid suns that hide behind her walls.

And that's the thing about people who mean everything they say. They think everyone else does too.

A man who has no conscience, no goodness, does not suffer.

Nothing good came free. Even love. You paid for all things. And if you were poor, suffering was your currency.

But time, it is like charm. You never have as much as you think.

The desert weed lives on, but the flower of spring blooms and wilts.

I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.

The smile is the most beautiful ornament that you can wear.

Revenge is an inhuman word.

Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.

There's no ceiling... just a continuation of improvement.

There are people who just can't handle life because they've thrown away too much of their reason.

I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.

We must determine to hear God's Words and put them into practice.

Life is never free of contradictions

Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it.

I wanna know how many buttons I'm going to get at meet and greets now.