Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction.

Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes.

Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything.

... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted.

If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman.

To me, love isn't all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and integrity to lean on

Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness.