praise is a great tonic, and helps most people to do their best.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

I - will have poetry in my life. And adventure. And love. Love above all.

Only God can break through the variegated walls of skin to capture the one and only hue of the heart. One Blood.

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?

I might be on the fence about this life, but I 'm not and will never be on the fence about you. I will fight for you.

I have the mentality that if you come in playing not to get hurt, that's when you're going to get hurt. So I play relentless.

I listen to both oldies and contemporary stations. I enjoy listening to current stuff because there's an energy to it that's inspiring.

The person who talks a lot or talks over people misses out because they weren't listening.

I still eat sushi, though I'm trying my best to have my last sushi roll.

Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.