There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.
I don't want to be separate from something that's important to me.
One of the great failings of our education system is that we tend to focus on those who are succeeding in exams, and there are plenty of them. But what we should also be looking at, and a lot more urgently, is those who fail.
Wherever my story takes me, however dark and difficult the theme, there is always some hope and redemption, not because readers like happy endings, but because I am an optimist at heart. I know the sun will rise in the morning, that there is a light at the end of every tunnel.
Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you will like and some that you think might not be for you. You might be surprised.
Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
I don't know, but I do think that everyone has a story to tell. The question is, can they find the voice and the confidence to tell it? We lack the encouragement as young people to believe this; we very often think that writing is for clever people, which it isn't.
You and I, today and always, are to bear witness of Jesus Christ and declare the message of the Restoration. . . . Missionary work is a manifestation of our spiritual identity and heritage.
Is it easy to love God' asks an old author. 'It is easy,' he replies, 'to those who do it. ' I have included two Graces under the word Charity. But God can give a third. He can awake in man, towards Himself, a supernatural Appreciative love. This is of all gifts the most to be desired. Here, not in our natural loves, nor even in ethics, lies the true centre of all human and angelic life. With this all things are possible.
We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.
Being neurotic seemed to be a kind of wild card, an all-purpose explanation.