You can only hide the sun for so long.

Be what you yearn to be, and stop living for false ideals.

Gossip is the swiftest bird alive, " Amonos said darkly."Yes, " said E'sinea, turning to view his surroundings. "I should like one day to catch Gossip and wring its neck.

There was still no likelihood that we could make a living from dance. We were doing it because we loved it... We realized how full we felt

Sometimes, she thought, courage was simply a matter of putting one foot in front of another and not stopping.

It is a bad thing if a writer tackles a subject he does not understand.

All these lives," she said. "All the stories we never know." (125)

My father was a professor of civil engineering at MIT, and my mother taught high school English.

The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when one bird is off the nest, the other has to go on.

What they call "play" (gym, travel, sports) looks like work.

God calls you to make definitive choices, and He has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment.

Your innermost core has always been pure. Purity is intrinsic to you, it cannot be taken away.