"We read to know we're not alone."

"The finest moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times… but rather the times when we are stretched to our limits."

"Some people feel that to be a Christian, one must be a gloomy, long-faced, spoil-sport. This is a complete travesty of the truth."

"I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity."

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God, do you learn."