Be at peace now and let the tide carry you into calm water. That is all you have to do for the moment. God bless you.

Genius creates from the heart and when the artifact is broken so is the heart.

He sat for a long time and thought to himself that he wished he knew how to pray, yet he knew, untaught, how by abandonment of himself to let the quietness take hold of him.

...accustomed like the white blackbird to the loneliness of eccentricity yet never quite reconciled to it, they found in each other's oddness a most comforting compatibility.

Nothing mitigated failure except the knowledge that it did not matter.

What you love will live in your heart and grow.

To Sethe, the future was a matter of keeping the past at bay. The "better life" she believed she and Denver were living was simply not that other one.

Only a relationship with Christ can satisfy our hearts. Without Him we have nothing. With Him we have all things to enjoy.

Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.

Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.

For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it.

For many weeks after [my wife] died, I could not get used to the feeling of coldness and lifelessness on her side of the bed - and it was even worse when they took the body away and buried her.

Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with.

When you're truly happy, you are being yourself.

The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible.