A person always has a chance to protest this or that.

If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

We tire differently if we love or love not.

I started my life with a single absolute: that the world was mine to shape in the image of my highest values and never to be given up to a lesser standard, no matter how long or hard the struggle.

Follow your own way of speaking to our Lord sincerely, lovingly, confidently, and simply, as your heart dictates.

But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television.

Nothing really dies as long as it's not forgotten

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

I think Ron Paul's views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every decent American.

When you save the life of anyone, a farmer, a teacher, a mother, they are contributing productively into the economy.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

My hope is that every country in Latin America will make a significant commitment to supporting early childhood development programs.

The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.