You don't dare think whole even to yourself the entirety of a dear hope or wish let alone a desperate one else you yourself have doomed it.

It’s not a matter of how small you are. Still you are important

Suddenly he knew joy and sorrow felted into one fabric. Courage and fear were one thing too.

And that's that as you get older, you lose things, things you don't necessarily want to lose.

True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

Be selfless to be helpful.

Your laughter is louder than my personal demons' whispers.

Drama is hard for me. Crying is much harder for me than laughter.

I don't think of myself as a guru but as a teacher. If one means 'guru' in the original sense a 'dispeller of darkness' then that certainly is my purpose.

The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith

Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door.