you can't know the meaning of the lesson until class is over!

...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

...freedom can be a full-time job if you let it.

When you're young, there's a whole lot of stuff you say you'll never do. Once you get a little older, the list tends to get shorter.

Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music.

Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

old habits are hard to break, but not impossible!

Vera Stark is a fabulous force of nature.

Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

Some people live for the sake of their partners and derive their strength and energy from them

The Son of Man is the Mediator of God and humanity.

The best way is to say that as a Christian for me the essence of Christian faith is that you treat others as if you wish to be treated.

That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia.

Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

Our minds should not be empty because if they are not preoccupied by good, evil will break in upon them.

Surviving is the strongest memory I have; the sense of having walked on water.