If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.

To have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment. It is not inherited, as with a family. It is not compelling, as with a child. And it has no means of physical pleasure, as with a mate. It is, therefore, an indescribable bond that brings with it a far deeper devotion than all the others.

I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.

I just knew that God wasn't there. He was a man on a throne in Heaven, so he was easy to forget.

I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.

I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

If you get old fashioned enough, you'll always be in style.