What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.

I believe in a God who not only intervenes in human affairs--again and again--but one who also makes banquets out of stale bread.

Besides, we were fifteen, and we couldn't get our feelings to match up with our brains. So we went with our feelings.

From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me.

Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.

I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More

Life's not all about happiness. Take the sad and pain too. But never forget the Almighty ALLAH. Speak to him about every fear, dream and hope

Then she took up the bow and began to play. The tone was warm and deep, storied with layers of age.

You don’t have to bewitch me, Aiden. I like you already.

Once you witness an injustice, you are no longer an observer but a participant.” ~ June Callwood.

A writer is a spectator, looking at everything with a highly critical eye.

Courage permits the caliber of performance to continue at its peak until the finish line is crossed.

Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.

God left the world unfinished for man to work his skill upon. He left the electricity still in the cloud, the oil still in the earth.

If things were a little better known and understood, we would all lead happier lives.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.