There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.

You mean you're comparing our lives to a sonnet? A strict form, but freedom within it? Yes. Mrs. Whatsit said. You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. What you say is completely up to you.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father." "Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.

Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.