“Who are you to say that being a lady, in itself, is not its own kind of war.”

“Plants do not speak, but their silence is alive with change.”

“I utilise all my spare moments. I've read twenty-seven of the Hundred Best Books. I collect ferns.”

“Emotional suffering comes as a result of trying to control the uncontrollable”

“Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.”

“A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all.”

“It's hard to know where you are when you're trying to read a map by the light of a falling star.”

“God's love for us is uncoerced and so freely given that it does not demand a response. But so freely is it given that it creates freedom in the recipient, so that our response is not one of obligation or duty, nor the returning of a favor, but uncoerced love.”