“Our growth depends not on how many experiences we devour, but on how many we digest.”

“Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.”

“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority.”

“A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.”

“True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.”

“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.”

“MORNINGTIDEThe wonderful works of morningtidebring the sight of luminous whiteness,a breathing whimsyamong wind-tossed sprigs of green.”

“Tender," she said again. "Tender is kind and gentle. It's also sore, like the skin around an injury.”

“I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.”

“Circumstances will change and things will be fine, just hold on a little more”

“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.”

“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”