"For more than three thousand years men have quarreled concerning the formulas of their faith."

"No one can fail to see that the power of the Church among large numbers in many communities is today diminishing, or has already ceased."

"The office of the public teacher is an unenviable and thankless one."

"We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended."

"I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction."

"In an ecology of love, people can relate in trust and face the future without fear. They do not need to play it safe. They can take uncertainty in their stride."

"It is a timeless truth that an hour spent in deep contemplation is worth a year of unguided wandering."

"I think the first decade of this century is going to be remembered as a time of extremism."