Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity to illustrate your faith in God.

What a pity every child couldn't learn to read under a willow tree.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

the demons that make a person afraid are the hardest to cast out.

There is no escape if love is not there

She snatched at the dream that had comforted her for so long. It was faded and thin, like a letter too often read.

Each day is precious when we consider what we can do to serve God and His Kingdom.

Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.

God uses the flawed, the failures, and the imperfect to accomplish His perfect will.

Expectations destroy our peace of mind. They are future disappointments, planned out in advance.

Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps.

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.

He who takes his fill of every pleasure ... becomes depraved; while he who avoids all pleasures alike ... becomes insensible.

Hillary Clinton is very strong and very smart.

Clean hands, Sansa. Whatever you do, make certain your hands are clean." ~ Lord Petyr Baelish, Littlefinger

I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.

Never think of your car as a cold machine, but as a hot-blooded horse.

It's getting almost so bad a colored man hasn't got any country.

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

It is not through the great skill of the hunter himself that success is achieved, but through the hunter's awareness of his place in Creation and his relationship to all things.