Being a good mother, it seemed to me, meant you ran the risk of losing your child.

When you love someone, you say their name different. Like it's safe inside your mouth.

I always hated when my scars started to fade, because as long as I could still see them, I knew why I was hurting.

Things that look impossible suddenly seem a lot better, once you get God on board.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

All any of us wanted, really, was to know that we counted. That someone else's life would not have been as rich without us here.

It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.

Maybe I was naïve to think that silence was implicit complacence, instead of a festering question. Maybe I was silly to believe that friends owed each other anything.

Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.

What you didn't tell someone was just as debilitating as what you did.

Age is not specified by years, but how you feel and right now I am 99 year old

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

You can get an idea of human nature only when you can see the relationship of the individual human being to the whole cosmos.

If you don't go to every level of your company, you distance yourself from the marketplace and from your people.

There is one thing I must tell you because I just found it to be a truth . . . You must always be yourself no matter what the price. It is the highest form of morality.

...war is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.

You were never taught how to talk with your face like you speak with words.

Common sense needs to be more common.

We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Sacrifices are concerned with the feelings of devotion and longing.