Any life lived attentively is disillusioning as it forces us to know us as we are.

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Peace - that was the other name for home.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

I say if a novelty Christmas song is funny one time, then it is funny every time. - Calvin

Psychological pseudoscience dies hard, especially when there are commercial interests at stake.

Preaching love disguised as hate is worst than screaming aloud to the world the darkness within you

We are on dangerous terrain when government picks winners and losers in the economy by subsidizing favored products and industries.

Sincerity is the way of heaven.

A lot of people don't realise I came out of the Smoky Mountains with a load of songs.

I'm tryna do it all tonight, I got plans. I got a certain lust for life, and as it stands.

I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record - everything stinks - and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.

My last sort of crisis was about overcoming the people who were more interested in what I had done than what I was doing in the present.

Let's say financially. Financially, I personally believe that you should have enough to do the assignment that you feel is part of your life. And whatever that is to do, you're going to need.