You go through things in life where you're not always going to get what you want, but if God feels it's supposed to happen, it's going to happen.

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

Why should you live in the past when the present already has everything that you need to start a new beginning?

I think about my editor when I write. She's a good friend, too.

Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.

Sometimes women are so great and powerful, but then they surrender to these vain things. They kind of fall for it.

Our thoughts are free.

just like a murderer jumps of nowhere in an ally, love jumped out in front of us and struck us both at once

No one thinks that they're a monster. No one thinks that of themselves. Everyone has an earnest belief that it would be better if they were in power.

An extremely effective instrument would be to put a price on carbon. It is only through the market that you can get a large enough and rapid enough response [to climate change]

The sun can give heat and light to the whole world, but he cannot do so when the clouds shut out his rays. Similarly as long as egotism veils the heart, God cannot shine upon it.