But no man's a hero to himself.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.

Everything that happens before Death is what counts.

Good to evil seems evil

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys.

He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life.

..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.

Beware the autumn people

It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

The dust was antique spice, burnt maple leaves, a prickling blue that teemed and sifted to earth. Swarming its own shadows, the dust filtered over the tents.

Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life.

God wants to use you as a divine show room, where the poor, the wearied and the depressed will find comfort and recreation! You got to be kind. It's a sign that you have conquered greed!

God (Love) can heal anything. Your job is to give permission. It takes a lotof trust.

No mortal ever has been, no mortal ever will be like the soul just launched on the sea of life.

There is something infinitely dingy about the word workshop. Pray that England doesn't become a nation of workshopkeepers.

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained.

I've been a loyal person all my life and I'd like to finish my career here

Every time you wake up and ask yourself, What good things am I going to do today?, remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.

If nominated, I won't run; If elected, I won't serve.