He who has not God in himself cannot feel His absence.

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude.

To love purely is to consent to distance, it is to adore the distance between ourselves and that which we love.

It is impossible to forgive whoever has done us harm if that harm has lowered us. We have to think that it has not lowered us, but has revealed our true level.

Vera had also hated lipstick, Marzipan and Lutherans - excluding her husband, but not her late mother-in-law. Most of all she hated being governed by anyone or anything.

How to stop time: kiss.How to travel in time: read.How to escape time: music.How to feel time: write.How to release time: breathe.

I'm not a writer who teaches. I'm a teacher who writes.

Just because I cut the heads off dolls doesn't mean I hate babies, I just hate dolls.

The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye).

I realized with grief that purposeless activities in language arts are probably the burial grounds of language development and that coffins can be found in most classrooms, including mine.

You can't pack everything into every single story.

Since God is the highest good, he would not allow any evil to exist in his works unless his omnipotence and goodness were such as to bring good even out of evil.

Even a foolish old woman like me knows that lazy people don't think for themselves; they only think about themselves.