The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will.

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.

Feeling like the voice she liked best in all the world was calling her name.

You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears.

...here also forgiving does not mean excusing. Many people seem to think it does. They think that if you ask them to forgive someone who has cheated or bullied them you are trying to make out that there was really no cheating or bullying. But if that were so, there would be nothing to forgive. (This doesn't mean that you must necessarily believe his next promise. It does mean that you must make every effort to kill every taste of resentment in your own heart - every wish to humiliate or hurt him or to pay him out.)

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were.