God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security.

The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop.

Woman must be the pioneer in this turning inward for strength. In a sense, she has always been the pioneer.

For sleep, one needs endless depths of blackness to sink into; daylight is too shallow, it will not cover one.

If it is a woman's function to give, she must be replenished, too.

People "died" all the time. . . . Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes; the fire had gone out. . . you always knew when you made a decision against life. The door clicked and you were safe inside-safe and dead.