Kate Atkinson Quote

Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality...

We demand privacy, yet we glorify those that break into computers.

The fantastic advances in the field of electronic communication constitute a greater danger to the privacy of the individual.

How is it possible that suffering that is neither my own nor of my concern should immediately affect me as though it were my own, and with such force that is moves me to action?

Big things in the glory of the world mean nothing. Small things in glory of God mean everything. Truly..., size doesn't matter in this world or in the world to come.

Readers are the glue that binds the books together.

I became an artist because I wanted to be an active participant in the conversation about art.

Young women today feel vulnerable to judgment; if a harsh sentence is passed (or even suspected or projected), it is not her reputation that suffers so much as the stability of her moral universe. The...

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

The power to proclaim the greatest news in heaven or on earth was not given to the angels. It was given to redeemed men . . . Every Christian is to be a witness