You're born to shimmer, you're born to shine, you're born to radiate

We're born to shimmer, we're born to shine We're born to radiate We're born to live, we're born to love We're born to never hate.

But I am a dreamer So you sent me away. Sometimes we dreamers Just get in the way.

People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth

...ordinary experience has to be made extraordinary in order to become accessible to reflection.

Our great civilization, here in America and across the civilized world has come upon a moment of reckoning.

I hope I will have achieved something lasting.

Two women seldom grow intimate but at the expense of a third person.

We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

What was more brutal than loss of hope?

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

If you'll think about various series you've read, can you think of any instance in which, say, the tenth volume of the series is notably better than the first nine? I can't.

I fundamentally believe that in the moral balance of the human race, we right ourselves. If we feel like the ship's keel is off, we find a way to steer ourselves through the storm repeatedly.