I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world.

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.

So maybe today you have a bad day. Tomorrow another one. But the day after tomorrow will be the worst, if you don´t get up and do something with your life.

Fate lies in our hands, its just that we need to be brave enough to read it & desire enough to change it

When faced with trials, pray so that you cannot be the trial yourself.

If man were happy, he would be the more so, the less he was diverted, like the saints and God.

We all played bad before we played good.

America's dumpsters should not be better fed than its people.

You've got to play for whoever you play for.

Freedom ultimately is dignity. And dignity, not income, is the opposite of poverty.

NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station.

The world of 'The Hunger Games' is a paranoid survivalist's dream.