I wasn't scare, I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.

sometimes wondered if it would be better to let go of the pain of wanting and settle for the calm mediocrity of the status quo.

Funny how often something she'd been so certain she needed turned out not to be a need at all, but a want--when the real 'need' was something else entirely. Something that could only be gained by giving, not by getting.

Yet even in such moments she didn't doubt that God existed. She just sometimes wondered if He remembered that she did.

Thoughts of the future and what it might hold threatened to crowd out her happiness, but she quickly reined in her thoughts and her fears. The good-byes here are only temporary. Someday there will be only together forevers.

Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man.

No life can surpass that of a man who quietly continues to serve God in the place where providence has placed him.

Delaware is not like Hollywood. But Delaware is cool. All you really need is a gym and a couple good places to eat and a movie theater.