Nancy Espe

“In the kingdom of glass everything is transparent, and there is no place to hide a dark heart.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“You must know nothing before you can learn something, and be empty before you can be filled. Is not the emptiness of the bowl what makes it useful? As for laws, a parrot can repeat them word for word. Their spirit is something else again. As for governing, one must first be lowest before being highest.”
― Lloyd Alexander, The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen

“If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.”
― Ronald Reagan

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov