I always keep my temper with my enemies, and that inclines me to lose it with my friends.

The teeth of self-pity had gnawed away her essential self.

The three kinds of services you generally find in the Episcopal churches. I call them either low-and-lazy, broad-and-hazy, or high-and-crazy.

Anything that can happen to someone else, can happen also to you.

the loneliest place to be is a hotel room in a big city in early evening.

The truth has a ring of its own. You learn in time to identify it.

Power's twin is responsibility.

From little pain you flinch away but great pain must be embraced.

Pain is a new room in your house.

Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.

Facts - all facts - explain and confirm each other. They are only partially true until you link them together.

Renew your mind daily by reading the Holy Scriptures.

This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life.

If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute.

Disney Channel is celebrities coated in sugar. Everything is really happy; everything is really bright.

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

The government cannot put a chocolate on every one of their pillows and tuck them in at night.

There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America.

I am not a princess, I don't want to be referred to as a princess - I find that super creepy.

Crying wolf may have been the boy's undoing, but the true irony was that the wolves were always lurking nearby.