We all grow on somebody's grave.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

The benefit of being friends will vastly outweigh the benefit of being enemies.

Plan strategically for a very fulfilling future, but don't forget to enjoy the beautiful sight of this precious moment.

It's that clear...there's no obstacle before determination. It sees it as an opportunity to shine

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

I kind of like the ping-pong coach aspect; it somehow fits, and I don't know how.

Life is hard enough, you don't have to embellish the drama!

I am inspired by so much. I am inspired by women, of course - beautiful women. I am also inspired by not so beautiful things in the world.

I'm a bit of a nerd, and my extracurricular activity is nerd games.

I will deny I ever said this, of course, but the gods need heroes. They always have. Otherwise we would not keep you annoying little brats around." I feel so wanted. Thanks.

the hopelessness that comes from knowing too little and feeling too much (so brittle, so dry he is in danger of the reverse: feeling nothing and knowing everything)