What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive; I feel that anything can happen.

You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.

For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.

It's so much better to desire than to have.

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive I feel that anything can happen.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Evil takes only prisoners….Time takes none."From The Tenth, chapter 28.

Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not just the intellect, but the imagination.

This is all disgraceful and underscores how imperative it is that Obamacare be fully repealed and that the newly elected GOP Congress get a backbone and stand up to this cadre of scofflaws.

The smoke alarm went off in the hallway upstairs, either to let us know the battery had just died or because the house was on fire.

We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary.

The most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question?' The second most important question is, 'Am I asking the most important question in the most important way?'

Faith is a reality and it reaches out to facts that are more solid, more real, more substantial, and more eternal than anything registered by our physical senses.

The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.

I began attempting to write for children under the mistaken assumption that writing for children was easy.