For really there is nothing like wings for getting you into trouble. But, on the other hand, if you are in trouble, there is nothing like wings for getting you out of it.

Trying not to believe things when in your heart you are almost sure they are true, is as bad for the temper as anything I know.

I believe books should be like a prime rib steak ~ good and thick.

I don’t think people can live without hope. What oxygen is to the lungs, hope is to our survival in this world. And the Bible is filled with hope.

Flowers are without hope. Because hope is tomorrow and flowers have no tomorrow.

A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

How had it happened, Simon thought, that he was bound to these people—to people who thought of him as nothing more than a Downworlder, half human at best?

If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action. Thoughts, readings and discourse on love are of value only as they present questions to be acted upon.

I'm not Brad Pitt or George Clooney. Those guys walk into a room and the room changes. I think there's something more... not average, but everyman about me.

The food industry, its trade associations, and research foundations, is well financed and highly organized to pressure the FDA.

Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism.