Friendship is always a sweet responsibility never an opportunity.

Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.

Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.

I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.

By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven.

During the Cold War, we gathered information by listening to the Soviets, taking pictures of the Soviets, and we allowed our human intelligence to decline.

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

You have to fight for your privacy or you lose it.

One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.

The Bottom Line: If people don't LOVE our work, we will not be able to sell what we make.

Let every man look before he leaps.

Canada is big enough to make a difference but not big enough to threaten anybody. And that is a huge asset if it's properly used.

Jerry and I hoped that it would be a popular bestseller.