It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

I’ll live out my whole life as a voice with no one listening.

I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.

As the heat of the coal differs from the coal itself, so do memory, perception, judgment, emotion, and will, differ from the brain which is the instrument of thought.

Psychoanalysts are not occupied with the minds of their patients; they do not believe in the mind but in a cerebral intestine.

I love musicals and I'm happy they are coming back because I'd love to do more.

Any nerd who grew up around the time that I did, BBC programming was a treasure chest for us.

Being a nice girl from the Mid-West, my inclination is always to give in and say yes because I want people to like me.

The eiderdown of this 2-0 lead is a lot more comfortable than the blanket of 1-0.

Those people who kill women, children, and defenseless civilians are about as Muslim as mass murderer Christopher Columbus was a Christian.

Airport security exists to guard us against terrorist attacks.