Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.

It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.

Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.

There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.

Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.

Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.

Welfare is monetary methadone.

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

I can always tell how stupid someone is by how certain they are about what they're saying.

I don't have time to stand around and listen to an 11-minute song.

If wed known we were going to be The Beatles wed have tried harder.

It takes two flints to make a fire.

The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

You've probably got a device on you that can shoot decent video, so what's stopping you?