We tend to defend vigorously things that in our deepest hearts we are not quite certain about. If we are certain of something we know, it doesn't need defending.
To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.
Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star.
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.
We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.