Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Peace - that was the other name for home.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.

I couldn't claim that I was smarter than sixty-five other guys--but the average of sixty-five other guys, certainly!

We all have a purpose, or calling. If it's greed, hence, lies the wrong path.

Work is man's most natural form of relaxation.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman.

As a teen, I heard the second Velvet Underground album, 'White Light/White Heat,' and it was too much for my limited scope of appreciation. It was intense, but I didn't get it.

I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

I keep waiting for the day in which everyone who loves Downton Abbey will realize they were actually watching a historical romance novel.

If one sets a car on fire, that is a criminal offence. If one sets hundreds of cars on fire, that is political action.