I believe yours is the only wisdom, Demelza.

It isn't where you're born in this world, it's what you do.

Do you believe we are masters of ourselves, or merely dance like puppets on strings having the illusion of independence?

But was any future, anyone's future, unfraught by hazards of some sort? The only security was death. So long as one wanted to go on living on had to accept the risks. Well, she accepted them...

God’s Word is not a book of human ideas . . . it is given to us by [God] to teach us how to live.

Some things we must learn through experience. That is how one truly lives.

The best humor is offered up to you by the stupidity of your opponents.

The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.

People are too apt to treat God as if he were a minor royalty.

You cannot change the seasons, but you can change yourself.

I like to take my time and not try to put too much pressure on myself, but it's hard. I think I forget every time - you give birth and you want your stomach to be flat again.

For a long time I would go to bed early. [Fr., Longtemps, je me suis couche de bonne heure.]

The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.