Changing husbands is only changing troubles.

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.

We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.

My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important

Don't take up a man's time talking about the smartness of your children; he wants to talk to you about the smartness of his children.

Nobody can live in the past or the future without being something of a nut.

I took my kids everywhere. I didn't have money for child care, so I took them to college with me and they sat in the hallway.

Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.

Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.

I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave until it's done.

People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting.