A thankful heart is never half-full or half-empty, but always overflowing with love.
Follow your heart, and you perish.
When I say work I only mean writing. Everything else is just odd jobs.
Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
It is my feeling that as we grow older we should become not less radical but more so. I do not, of course, mean this in any political-party sense, but rather in a willingness to struggle for those things in which we passionately believe. Social activism and the struggle for social justice are often thought of as the natural activities of the young but not of the middle-aged or the elderly. In fact, I don't think this was ever true.
If I hadn't had my children, I wouldn't have written more and better, I would have written less and worse.
It takes courage to care for others, because people who care run the risk of being hurt. It's not easy to let your guard down, open your heart, react with sympathy or compassion or indignation or enthusiasm when usually it's much easier-and sometimes much safer-not to get involved. People who take the risk make a tremendous discovery: The more things you care about, and the more intensely you care, the more alive you are.
Your scare me rather. My reflection in the glass never did that; of course, I knew it so well. Like something I had tamed. . . I'm going to smile, and my smile will sink down into your pupils, and heaven knows what it will become.
God's Word is as good as He is. There is an old saying that a man is as good as his word. Well, God is as good as His Word. His character is behind what He has said.
I can't do anything but play guitar.