Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Love is divine ink: miracles are God's signature.

Do you want to die, or do you want to die trying? Give up or give it a shot.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

Though prayer doesn't change God's mind or God's purposes, prayer does change something- It changes us.

Sometimes what my analytical mind says to me is not what I'll do.

We can often do more for other men by trying to correct our own faults than by trying to correct theirs.

Every depression is a challenge to every manufacturer to put more brains into his business.

We pass thoughts around, from mind to mind, so compulsively and with such speed that the brains of mankind often appear, functionally, to be undergoing fusion.

Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!

I died in my boots like a pioneer With the whole wide sky above me.