Gone is gone. I never miss anything or anyone because it all becomes a lovely memory. I guard my memories and love them, but I don't get in them and lie down.

Harriet never minded admitting she didn't know something. So what, she thought, I could always learn.

I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.

You know what? You're an individual, and that makes people nervous. And it's gonna keep making people nervous for the rest of your life.

Don't mess with anybody on a Monday. It's a bad, bad day.

There are as many ways to live as there are people.

Life is a struggle and a good spy gets in there and fights.

If you ever get in real trouble, don't panic. Sit down and think about it. Remember two things, always. There must be some way out of it and there must be humor in it somewhere.

There is no sight so ugly as the human face in anger.

Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.

It won't do you a bit of good to know everything if you don't do anything with it.

Men love pleasure.

Where ever the spirit of Christ is known, there is much of good will, of mutual respect, of love and appreciation and kindness.

Honestly, I don't feel pressure to live up to anything I've done because I tend to not listen to my work once a year passes.

If you must begin then go all the way, because if you begin and quit, the unfinished business you have left behind begins to haunt you all the time.

The ordinary is the divine.

A religion that never suffices to govern a man will never suffice to save him; that which does not sufficiently distinguish one from a wicked world will never distinguish him from a perishing world.

The first step in calculating which way to go is to find out where you are.

children had no place in love affairs. Children ought to be born to widows and old maids.

Teacher preparation should go beyond the technical preparation of teachers and be rooted in the ethical formation both of selves and of history.

When you finally get something together after hours of work and it's good, you know it's not for nothing!