Friendship is necessary to our well-being—not just nice but necessary. We all hunger for it; it’s a universal need.

Sometimes discipline, which means 'to teach,' is confused with criticism. Children-as well as people of all ages-improve behavior from love and encouragement more than from fault-finding.

You must do everything you can to make your appearance pleasing, but the minute you walk out the door, forget yourself and start concentrating on others.

We are each in the middle of our own path. We do not know what will be at the end of our story.

Sometimes discipline, which means "to teach," is confused with criticism.

Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.

Too much zeal offends where indirection works.

There is a point of no return, unremarked at the time, in most lives.

The best soulwinners are those who go when it is convenient and then go when it is not convenient.

No more wars, no more bloodshed, and no more threats.

I am against anybody who uses violence to make their points.

I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.

There weren't a lot of girl singers around. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were the guys I looked up to.

The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.