When you get tired of worrying and mourning your horse and trying not to be afraid, tell me and I'll do it for you a while so you can shut your eyes and sleep peaceful.

Yes, we'll yell, 'Help, help us, goose girl, and bring the terrifying legion of warrior geese'.

If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours.

She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

Clearly she was expected to say something, but panic at having to speak stole the thoughts from her head.

You saw my leg?""How can a man help what he sees?" he said. "And, if I could add, you possess a very fine leg.

Sometimes it seems my identity’s a matter of opinion

Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

The author cites researcher David Howard's idea of post-traumatic growth. Howard contends that some individuals faced with a traumatic event actually develop new strength.

Repentance is a softening of ones heart and a realigning of ones affections.

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

Human-caused climate change threatens almost every aspect of human existence.

The best thing to know is what you don't know.

By strengthening the economy, providing job opportunity and meeting the needs of working families, we can ensure the continued prosperity of our nation.

I don't cook. I respect food too much.

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.

Nobody reads the disclosures that roll down your computer screen. You click 'I agree' but you don't know what you're agreeing to.