Your future isn't programmed by your past; it's programmed by your thoughts.

We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.

Every ending is a new beginning. Through the grace of God, we can always start again. (Page 120.)

Until we have met the monsters in ourselves, we keep trying to slay them in the outer world. And we find that we cannot. For all darkness in the world stems from darkness in the heart. And it is there that we must do our work.

God gives us His strength by giving us His vision of things. Our seeing people as innocent is the only way to achieve God’s peace.

There is nothing Madison Avenue can give us that will make us more beautiful women. We are beautiful because God created us that way.

We tend to lack humility toward love, to patronize it rather than bow before it, to put mundane considerations before the emotional need to hold someone in our arms.