Politeness is the flower of humanity.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

God begins molding a mother after His own heart on the inside--in the inner woman and her heart--and then works outward.

Super-secret Ninja Club sounds way cooler than the whole BFF thing.

Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

I didn't even have a computer until like 10 years ago. I was still using a typewriter until 2002.

Just because a woman has a pimp doesn't necessarily mean that she's being abused by the guy. You can't know for sure.

Character, like porcelain-ware, must be painted before it is glazed. There can be no change of color after it is burned in.

Blindness enhanced my spiritual life.

Husbands should revolt from time to time. Even the best circus-number becomes boring if the beast is too tame.

Whatever happens, do not lose hold of the two main ropes of life - hope and faith.