You could not stop the winds and you could not stop Time. It went on and on, -and on.

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.

Love is the light that you see by.

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.

It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.

It takes a small town to keep you humble.

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.

Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.

I’m using beauty to subvert the system.

People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

All of world's eyes are trained on the Games. So winning at that stage is heroic. It is a different feeling altogether and cannot be explained in words.

I enjoyed carpentry, and it was very good to me for 12 years.

Customers are ninjas now. They are stealthily evaluating you right under your nose.

This isn't like an auction, right? You guys aren't going to take it away?

Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.

I am passionate about learning to most fully embody the spark that is the source of life, the hidden glory of the Creator.

There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.