When will women begin to have the first glimmer that above all other loyalties is the loyalty toTruth, i.e., to yourself, that husband, children, friends and countryare as nothing to that.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

I wonder whether if I had an education I should have been more or less a fool that I am.

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

How fatally the entire want of humor cripples the mind.

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

There exists a miracle in every moment.

The point of the mission trip is to invite young people to act in ways that witness to the promise of God's action, which will make all things new.

Years and years of happiness only make us realize how lucky we are to have friends that have shared and made that happiness a reality.

Ay call it holy ground The soil where first they trod. They have left unstained what there they found - Freedom to worship God.

What's your angle?" I asked, trying to sound more playful than demanding. "Isosceles," Jack quipped.

Sin in the theater, I can observe now, is comparable to education in a university: it is there for those who wish to take advantage of it, but fewer do than you might suspect.

Children don't have to be raised. They'll grow.

I'm such a fangirl when it comes to other writers. I read 250 books a year, and I'm always talking up books by other authors.

God sometimes allows us to feel anger so we'll recognize when we're being mistreated. But even when we experience true injustices in our lives, we must not vent our anger in an improper way.

A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.