We each bring our own unique beauty to the world, and how blessed we are to have the freedom to find that beauty in each other.

What whispers from the center of the soul is an innocence—so loving, so pure, so divine—that the sage bows and the wise man weeps at the sound of its soft singing.

What I know is nothing but that we are a spring path of autumn light carved into a river of ancient singing.

Valentine reminds us that to be fully human is to be both a story teller and a story dweller."--- Christina Meldrum, author of Madapple and Amaryllis in Blueberry

Part of the desire to see each other succeed is to stop putting a price on success.

Williams had a very shrewd sense of how much heat the organism could take at any given time

I have a memory like an elephant. I remember every elephant I've ever met.

O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.

she loved to walk down the street with a book under her arm. It had the same significance for her as an elegant cane for the dandy a century ago. It differentiated her from others.

I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.

It's very hard to self-motivate without someone standing over you snarling, ready to hurl the chalk at your head at the slightest slackening.

If the heart sorrows over physical loss, the spirit rejoices over hope of understanding.