I just want some space to myself every now and then. Every time I’m with you I have this sense that you want something from me.
People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!
Living by faith includes the call to something greater than cowardly self-preservation.
A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.
For if joyful is the fountain that rises in the sun, its springs are in the wells of sorrow unfathomable at the foundations of the Earth.
It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it’s only a passing thing… this shadow. Even darkness must pass.
I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at.
Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
Our culture is something that has sustained us for thousands and thousands of years and will continue to do so in generations to come.
Grief is a process to go through, not a destination in which to wallow. In a process, you keep putting one foot in front of the other, and each little step is part of your healing.
Success is falling down 7 times but getting up 8!