For most people, chemotherapy is no longer the chamber of horrors we often conceive it to be. Yes, it is an ordeal for some people, but it wasn't for me, nor for most of the patients I got to know during my four months of periodic visits to the chemo suite.

If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go down to the Big C: Ali MacGraw, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Debra Winger, Susan Sarandon.

A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.

God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them.