Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great. I am interested in whether you've sat broken.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.

I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.

Hell is the special pain that dwells in that loss which you yourself have caused

Everything you need comes to you in perfect time, space and sequence.

Men do cry, but only when assembling furniture.

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

That's basically what I have people do, I have them become aware. Once you set a goal, once you become aware of something, it becomes part of your consciousness.

We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact.