After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

Twentieth-century Russian literature has produced nothing special except perhaps one novel and two stories by Andrei Platonov, who ended his days sweeping streets.

How delightful to find a friend in everyone.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

For darkness restores what light cannot repair.

I sit in the dark. And it would be hard to figure out which is worse; the dark inside, or the darkness out.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse

Poetry is what is gained in translation.

God is only as strong as your belief in him.

She shot out of her seat, tired of waiting, at last ready to create her future.

It has been preached in every country, taught everywhere, but only believed in by a few, because until we get the experience ourselves, we cannot believe in it.

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

It was God's word that made us; is it any wonder that His word should sustain us?

Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

The sun is but a morning star.

Hate is not a feeling toward another, but a feeling of defeat by another.

Don't let the secret recipe die with the inventor.

You know what God told the Cubs? Don't do anything until I come back.