While the circumnavigation of the solar system seems farfetched, it may not be once the problem of effective anti-gravitational control is solved.

Human nature is violent, argumentative, fallible, and given to endless fantasizing.

A life I didn't choose chose me.

when you hate someone, at the same time, you grab that person and give a space in yourself for that person. that's when your hatred might turn into affection, into love.

Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.

Happiness is brief It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

I'm sorry? No more smooches is worse than the world ending?

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

THE most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me

You write your life story by the choices you make. You never know if they have been a mistake. Those moments of decision are so difficult.

Who can put a pricetag on the influence of a mother?

So history is fertile territory for me and I think I could feel happy with any period of history, provided I had the right sources and the necessary time for the initial research.