Personal life becomes paler as the imaginative life becomes richer.

Comparing Jesus with history's greatest of human leaders is like comparing the sun to a flashlight with no batteries.

The Bible diagnoses the cancer of all cancers and prescribes the cure of all cures.

If you are not concerned about your neighbor's salvation, then I am concerned for yours.

This life is the only hell believers will ever know. But for those who die in their sins, this is their only heaven.

Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.

I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived.

The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.

The trouble is you almost have to marry a man before you can find out the sort of wife he needs; and usually it's exactly the sort you are not.

Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.

To fulfil the dreams of one's youth; that is the best that can happen to a man. No worldly success can take the place of that.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

When the eyes of the flesh are shut, the eyes of the spirit are open.

Every artist makes herself born. You must bring the artist into the world yourself.

That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.

People can be lovers and enemies at the same time, you know.

On the farm the weather was the great fact, and men's affairs went on underneath it, as the streams creep under the ice.