Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.
It was an emergency!" Seth blurted. "Read my lips - emergency reading - not some demented idea of fun. If I was starving, I would eat asparagus. If somebody held a gun to my head, I would watch a soap...
Deeply happy people are even thankful for the trials and tragedies they pass through.
Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.
I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous.
I consider my mom and all my sisters my friends.
Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.
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
There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.
Capture your youth, while you can.
Readers are the glue that binds the books together.