“afraid﹘trust God to change you!    64.    You will never forgive if you wait until you”

“Now one often saw only her face and body, while her soul was not seen at all.”

“But here the physical battle is only an occasion for describing the battlefield that is the human body.”

“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even if no one is watching.”

“Success lies in the balance between seeking and striving on one hand and being peaceful and content on the other.”

“Nothing is more likely than that [the] enumeration of powers is defective. This is the ordinary case of all human works. Let us then go on perfecting it by adding by way of amendment to the Constitution those powers which time and trial show are still wanting”

“Surely not a palm lock, she told herself. A palm lock must be keyed to one individual’s hand shape and palm lines. But it looked like a palm lock. And there were ways to open any palm lock—as she had learned at school.”

“Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.”

“In my research, I was surprised to discover that some experts believe many people possess an instinct or a natural aptitude for making money, others for healing, creating art, organizing, or negotiating. I’m convinced our instincts emerge out of and alongside our gifting, so it makes sense that our instincts would reflect our talents and abilities.”

“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

“That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.”

“America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.” 

“God created things which had free will. That means creatures which can go wrong or right. Some people think they can imagine a creature which was free but had no possibility of going wrong, but I can't. If a thing is free to be good it's also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having. A world of automata -of creatures that worked like machines- would hardly be worth creating. The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they've got to be free. Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently, He thought it worth the risk. (...) If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will -that is, for making a real world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings- then we may take it it is worth paying.”

“Any Government strong enough to give you what you want, is a Government strong enough to take everything you have!”