Words worth keeping

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

What happens when people open their hearts?""They get better.

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised. But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of - throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.

I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.

Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.

Man may have discovered fire, but women discovered how to play with it.

I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Being crazy isn't enough.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Life is pain, highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.

If you are going through hell, keep going.

Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?