Love comes into your being like a tidal wave ... sometimes it withdraws like a wave, till there isn't such a thing as a pool left, and every bit of your heart is as dry as seaweed beyond the wave's reach.

When lightning strikes, the mouse is sometimes burned with the farm.

To see a shadow and think it is a tree that is a pity; but to see a tree and to think it a shadow can be fatal.

Some of us cling to our curses if we haven't anything better to cling to!

A refugee is as helpless as a new born child - but not so appealing! Besides, a new born child has no memories!

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

If money had been the way to save the world, Christ himself would have been rich.