When I went out, light of day seemed a darker color than when I went in.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

When prayer goes viral, people are not excited about “it” (prayer) but are infectious about “Him

The existence of any method, standard, custom or practice is no reason for its continuance when a better is offered.

White supremacy will be strengthened, not weakened, by women's suffrage.

The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them.

I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.

The Super Bowl is like a movie, and the quarterback is the leading man.

A writer's inspiration is not just to create. He must eat three times a day.

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of work.

'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.

You thought you were found but you realize that you were lost, and someday you may discover that you're lost now.