“I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really.”

“The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.”

“Life every man holds dear but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life.”

“The energy of the mind is the essence of life.”

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.”

“And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.”

“The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.”

“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”

“My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.”