He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.

A man without words is a man without thought.

All great and precious things are lonely.

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

An unbelieved truth can hurt a man much more than a lie. It takes great courage to back truth unacceptable to our times. There's a punishment for it, and it's usually crucifixion.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

Man has a choice and it's a choice that makes him a man.

Courage and fear were one thing too.

Sometimes, a lie is told in kindness. I don't believe it ever works kindly. The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow, eating agony of a lie is never lost.

As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper many things he did not know about himself.

The object of life is to love endlessly.

Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.

Language is also a place of struggle.

People for the American Way says it has yet to find anyone who has made a stronger case against the proposed school prayer Constitutional amendment... What kind of prayer would we use?

'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate!

That which is the foundation of all our hopes and of all our fears; all our hopes and fears which are of any consideration; I mean a Future Life.

Don't you dare get to the top and not know what to do.

New Jersey for me is so alive with history. It's old, dynamic, African-American, Latino.

We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration.

This Christmas may we be consistent in living the Gospel, welcoming Jesus into the centre of our lives.