He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ...

[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.

Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.

You don't have to boast for work that speaks for itself.

Then in the interest of full honesty, I really wish you'd kiss me right now.

I can't believe George Bush might be president.

To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?

Listening to God - which is a key part of practicing His presence - is not a method, but a walk with a person.

When you are happy, the people around you are happy, too, and it inspires them to change their own world.

A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.

The hour has arrived to abandon theories and go directly to what is practical.

I'm a selective pack rat. There's some things I have no problem getting rid of and others I hold onto dearly.