We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.

Democratic dissent is not disloyalty, it is a positive civic duty.

In a democracy, regulation of the press and imposing standards on it must be voluntary.

You will encounter many challenges in life. But you must never be defeated by the challenges.

History is not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.

Decide where and when you want to write. I like space, and silence is an inspiration to me.

When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

A temptation arises: it is the wind. It disturbs you: it is the surging of the seas. This is the time to awaken Christ and let Him remind you of these words

You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.

A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.