I am not a hero in soul and never will be, but I am better than I was before. Or so I tell myself; and for now that is enough.

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

If you cannot love the pain, you can at least love the lessons it teaches

Perhaps there are just some things you leave behind when you choose a new life.

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret.

If you listen to the wind very carefully, you'll be able to hear me whisper my love for you.

Who would have guessed that the monster of fraud was a democracy?

Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.

Heaven is an idea constructed by man to help him cope with the fact that life on earth is both brutally short and, paradoxically, far too long.

It doesn't matter how fast you move, I learned, if you never go anywhere.

Only a man unable to handle the actual world would create another one in which to hide.

Pray regularly for the members of your family.

We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the latter is natural, real, direct and spontaneous.

Luggage and guests did not travel together ... in fact, luggage went by a different route, so suitcases could be distributed to guest rooms before they arrived

This is the moral challenge of our generation. Not only are the eyes of the world upon us. More important, succeeding generations depend on us. We cannot rob our children of their future.

Convenience is the American way.

It was magic, I felt the bond between us. She was a jelly to my peanuts, Mars to Venus, The Earth to my sun, moon and stars, We added up mathematically... It's like I had a bad habit, B!

Affection may be abiding and love may be abiding, but the state of being in love is transitory.

The Imagi-Nation is a little country in your head. When you're young, you go there to play. When you get older, you go there to worry.

We are called to live our baptism every day, as new creatures, clothed in Christ.

[The Constitution] is an experiment as all life is an experiment.