I'd much rather fall to my death than admit my weakness to you.""The captain of the Royal Guard wants to impress a lowly handmaiden?""A clumsy young man wants to impress a beautiful young woman.

The Bible is not an option

I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.

I pray to God to be a great player, but I want to keep my life.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Ultimately I am happy that everybody is embracing hip hop and the sounds from the streets.

To live life is to make a succession of errors. Understanding this can bring us great ease and forgiveness for ourselves and others.

Hope on. Journey on. Honestly acknowledge your questions and your concerns, but first and forever fan the flame of your faith, because all things are possible to them that believe.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by agreement or by emotional appeal.

The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.

An owl sound wandered along the road with me. I didn't hear it--I breathed it into my ears.