What are you afraid of? I'm afraid of not recognizing Paradise.

The night is a strawberry.

Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person’s bookcase and their grocery cart, she’d pretty much know who they were.

The four sayings that lead to wisdom: I was wrong I'm sorry I don't know I need help

Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

No good ever comes from putting up walls. What people mistake for safety is in fact captivity. And few things thrive in captivity.

But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas.

Better to accept the wretched truth than struggle, twisting to make a wish a reality.

When someone stabs you it's not your fault that you feel pain.

Where there is love there is courage, where there is courage there is peace, where there is peace there is God. And when you have God, you have everything.

We should be carefulOf each other, we should be kindWhile there is still time

A person who loves himself can never feel himself completely lonely!

Fear is secured by a dread of punishment.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

Ask, could my gifts, education, career, or experience be used to spread the gospel where it’s needed most?

Psychiatrists say that 1 of 4 people are mentally ill. Check 3 friends. If they are okay, you're it.

With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.

To substitute Scripture for the self-revealing Spirit is to put the dead letter in the place of the living Word.

Throughout its history, Islam has borrowed and adapted from other civilizations, both ancient and modern.

I'm in my 60s, and a cancer scare just makes you more aware of mortality.