Worry is a mean-faced dwarf who beats on your heart like a kettledrum.

There are times in your life when, despite the steel weight of your memories and the sadness that seems to lie at your feet like a shadow, you suddenly and strangely feel perfectly okay.

The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.

People who read Anne Lamott, like people who read Anne Rice, believe that tragedy is romantic, but the people who read Anne Lamott believe it ironically.

There was no one alive who did not contribute his share of mystery to the world.

I write out of gratitude for all the books I have loved over the years.

The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.

She had the same responsibility as everybody else did: to live as softly as she could in the world.

I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished.

I had always been the kind of boy who was quick to laugh and quick to cry.

With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an atmosphere you don’t so much interpret as breathe.

If a man is good, he is good to himself.

There is something so attractive about a man who is able to laugh shamelessly.

The activity of interpreting might be understood as listening for the 'song beneath the words.

You can bring changes to your country if you have a victorious mentality

There were times in school when a person had to do things fast, cheap, and without character.

Let your mind, happily contented with the present, care not what the morrow will bring with it.

How often is the passing of one storm only a prelude to another.

My path is exactly where I want it to be. I'm doing my thing. I'm getting better with every album.

Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

Jesus knew that there was a place for everything and it’s not necessarily everyone’s place to come to Australia.