Within our family there was no such thing as a person who did not matter. Second cousins thrice removed mattered.

We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.

If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it.

Coming to Christ is not an event. It is a process where we keep trying and trying and never give up.

John Lewis we all know was beaten terribly, almost to an inch of his life, opened doors that will never be closed, although there are forces that are attempting to close those doors.

Those who have suffered make the best comforters.

Our real discoveries come from chaos.

Dream big; at least you will have the joy of reaching for the stars instead of living in a box filled with unopened gifts.

We've come a long way. Power dressing now is designed to let the woman inside us come through.

This element of surprise or mystery the detective element as it is sometimes rather emptily called is of great importance in a plot.

Newness hath an evanescent beauty.

He found himself in habiting the vast, empty plateau where most people live, between boredom and contentment.

Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.