It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

There are two ways of meeting difficulties: you alter the difficulties, or you alter yourself to meet them.

Neither situations nor people can be altered by the interference of an outsider. If they are to be altered, that alteration must come from within.

Truth, though it has many disadvantages, is at least changeless. You can always find it where you left it.

Where there is laughter there is always more health than sickness.

It's a good thing to learn early that other people's opinions do not matter, unless they happen to be true.

if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

All persecution is a sign of fear; for if we did not fear the power of an opinion different from our own, we should not mind others holding it.

She believed in letting children have a certain amount of rope, and only intervened at the last moment, in order to prevent their hanging themselves by it.

Time indeed has very little to do with living except at its beginning or near its end.

To be a Jew is to be strong with a strength that has outlived persecutions. It is to be wise against ignorance, honest against piracy, harmless against evil, kind against cruelty

Wednesday had come and gone in a single breath. As I dreamt of divine love, Picasso, and a vast field of gold, a new dawn had already begun.

Much of what we accomplish in the church is due to the selfless service of women.

Underneath my lashes I watched him, and I thought, Come back. Be the you I love and remember

God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.

There was a spell in the second half when I took my heart off my sleeve and put it in my mouth.

It's good to be employable, but I hope to show the truth. The paintings seem true because nobody wants me to do them.

Our goal is to make Maine the healthiest state in the nation and reduce our overall health care costs.

Why is it that everything is collapsing if gravity is pulling us together?

Luxury is about pleasing yourself, not dressing for other people

No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year.