I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.

But we are learning from the teaching and example of Jesus that life itself is a religion, that nothing is more sacred than a human being, that the end of all right institutions, whether the home or the church or an educational establishment, or a government, is the development of the human soul.

It is useless to talk virtue to a starving girl.

Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great cause more than life itself.

On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.

Fond as we are of our loved ones, there comes at times during their absence an unexplained peace.

Valentine's Day is a sham created by card companies to reinforce gender stereotypes. [..] I'll buy some cookies, but NOT for Valentine's Day. These cookies celebrate the February 14th birthday of Anna Howard Shaw, famed American suffragette.