Swallow your pride, examine yourself, and humble yourself before God.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
For the grateful, there is no room for disappointment; Each moment offers life.
It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies...
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
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?
Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
If you caress me one more time, you will melt the butter on my toast.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.