Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

It is remarkable how long men will believe in the bottomlessness of a pond without taking the trouble to sound it.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Man wanted a home, a place for warmth, or comfort, first of physical warmth, then the warmth of the affections.

Much of what we call evil can often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight

We are benefiting from one thing, and that is the attacks on the twin towers and the pentagon and the American struggle in Iraq. These events swung American public opinion in our favor

I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.

Having studied at the Sorbonne, I spent my 21st birthday in Paris and celebrated with one of my professors in a cafe outside of Notre Dame.

I have been flooded with color on the inside, drab on the outside.

The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart.

I liked being married instead of the girl who's looking for a guy.

I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.

It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.

The Democrats have been there for working people in our country. That's who we are, trickle-down vs. middle-class economics. That's the major difference between the parties.