Not to be alone - ever - is one of my ideas of hell, and a day when I have had no solitude at all in which 'to catch up with myself' I find mentally, physically and spiritually exhausting.

Happiness is the result of an attitude of mind. I believe you can build it out of small things.

A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!" "Anytime," Harold told her, "is time to be drinking tea.

It is a huge danger to pretend that awful things do not happen. But you need enough hope to keep going. I am trying to make hope. Flowers grow out of darkness.

Healing comes by faith. Faith is destroyed by doubt. If you doubt whether God wants people to be healed, you won’t see them healed.

No religion, No race, No countries, Today we are human.

I stepped forward as commanded, wondering which of the many rules I had broken now.

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns

He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up by betting the house as well.

I don't think there's a military solution. If we funnel in more weapons we're just likely to see more of them turned against us by the people we're trying to combat.

There is explosive power in virtue.

You paid for every second of beauty you managed to steal.

Do you realize Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents