It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.

Jesus changes our history from a random series of sad incidents and accidents into a constant opportunity for a change of heart.

Death people who are still alive at this hour, must resurrect and ascend to the intellectual heaven where there is no ignorance.

Until I face the emptiness in my soul and know this spirit within me, I have not yet begun to live, nor touched the face of God.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

When we were on trees, others had lived in skies. When we reach skies, descendant of primitives will someday convey this message.

No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.

Nothing stays the same and nothing changes. What is old today will be new tomorrow. What is new today will be forgotten tomorrow.

I pray that nothing stay the same. I pray that I have changed. I pray that everyone and everything has changed. It's win win.

People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.

It's like the seasons. When they start, you're one kind of person, and then when they end, you're somebody different.

Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

Jag trur inte att jag helt och hållet är lesbisk... och mitt förhållande til männen er oförandrat.

Don't trust people whose feelings change with time... Trust people whose feelings remain the same, even when the time changes.

To take Christ into our well-ordered, well-kept lives is in many ways to ask for trouble, for he will not leave well enough alone.