I think a lot of the national Democrats believe that, you know, Iraq is a distraction and not part of the War on Terror. They've said so. And I strongly disagree.
It's funny how you can be mad at someone one moment and want to hug them the next.
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
We are always bargaining with our feelings so that we can live from day to day.
I must try to be alone for part of each year. . . and part of each day. . . in order to keep my core, my center. . . Women must be still as the axis of a wheel in the midst of her activities. She must be the pioneer of achieving this stillness, not only for her own salvation, but for the salvation of family life, of society, perhaps even of our civilization.
The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.
the final lesson of learning to be independent - widowhood. . . is the hardest lesson of all.
Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
The devil, the originator of sorrowful anxieties and restless troubles, flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God. . . . Music is a gift and grace of God, not an invention of men. Thus it drives out the devil and makes people cheerful. Then one forgets all wrath, impurity, and other devices.
For a woman, forty is torture, the end.
In order to go beyond ideas to direct realization, it's essential to have a great deal of purity.