Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The problem with death is absence

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

Sometimes the simplest solution out of conflict is becoming someone’s friend, instead of saying goodbye forever.

I always believe that ideas are like shooting stars when you have one make it happen and not just wish.

…the known had been so long dwarfed by the unknown that confusion was an easy bedfellow.

What men and women need is encouragement. ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut of bad habits.

The African-American community has been let down by our politicians. They talk good around election time, and after the election, they say, see ya later, I'll see you in four years.

It has been a long march to equality. We have cracked the door, and opened the window.

Doesn't becoming imply time?

A beautiful heart wants to know God and gets to know him through his Word.

Only God knows that. He is the only one who knows. He is only one who will know. And he is the only one who does know.

Only if you sacrifice for a cause will you love it.