Ghosts!” gasped Alice. “Real, live ghosts?”“No! Not ‘real, live ghosts!’ Spooky, dead ghosts!

She didn't think she could be a Christian if perfection was required.

Low and behold what comes of reading too many romance novels.

Nothing good in this world comes free! For everything there’s a payment of time or money or soul!

I love Alice more than life itself, but I can't keep her hidden forever.

If Miss Elton spoke water instead of words, then there would have been a repetition of Noah’s flood.

I’m an idiot for trying to avoid these feelings because they have caused me pain in the past.

Stones and sticks are thrown only at fruit-bearing trees.

I can make a virtue of slapdash. Slapdash can give you courage.

Being shown a gesture of love is like being offered a portion of God.

One of the things that I'm really concerned about is that people who don't have power are not priorities for people in public life. Maybe it's always been that way, but I see it more starkly now.

Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.

Even though more people can build websites today than even 10 years ago, I think there's probably even less really deep understand of how a good website gets built than there was even then.

Speak of the moderns without contempt and of the ancients without idolatry; judge them all by their merits, but not by their age

... acquired tastes are the mark of the man of leisure.

I think anyone who knows me at all knows that I have been a movie addict all my life. I grew up in a city obsessed by cinema and where there are cinemas on every street corner.

The smartest thing I ever did was to hire my weakness.