"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."

"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."

"The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older."

"The canvas of imagination has no boundaries except those imposed by fear. Such is the immutable nature of understanding."

"A resilient spirit knows that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it."

"To conquer fear is to realize that gratitude turns what we have into enough."