I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.

If you feel stuck, bring your whole self to Christ, not just the problem, but you. Ask God to change your heart. Commit yourself to pray to that end. It's God's heart to give good gifts to His children.

God can change our circumstances, but sometimes He waits for us to show real desire for change as well as our faith in Him.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

The one thing you can't take away from me is the way I choose to respond to what you do to me. The last of one's freedoms is to choose one's attitude in any given circumstance.

It is only right and proper to be moved by the Bible, but present-day reality has so strong a hold over us that even when we try to imagine the past the minor events in our lives immediately wrench us out of our musings, and our own adventures throw us back irrevocably upon our personal feelings—joy, boredom, suffering, anger, or a smile.

Lord, keep my thoughts green! That is something one should say over and over again.

You have changed since then, you are no longer the same." Well, that is not entirely true. What has changed is that my life then was less difficult and my future seemingly less gloomy, but as far as my inner self, my way of looking at things and of thinking is concerned, that has not changed. But if there has indeed been a change, then it is that I think, believe and love more seriously now what I thought, believed and loved even then.

Normality is a paved road: It's comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.

Mental fight means thinking against the current, not with it. It is our business to puncture gas bags and discover the seeds of truth.

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.