I keep my ideals because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

What a wonderful thought it is that some of the best days of our lives haven't even happened yet.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. People are just people, and all people have faults and shortcomings, but all of us are born with a basic goodness.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

Whoever is happy will make others happy.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

Our lives are fashioned by our choices. First we make our choices. Then our choices make us.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

The European reaction to Obama is a European delusion.

I don't care anymore! I tried so hard! It's like the more I keep tryin' to be here the more people keep treating me like I don't belong here!

I tend to like writing long stories in comics. I worked on 'Flash, ' 'Teen Titans' and 'JSA' for years. I always like diving into characters.

True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.

Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.

The recounting of a life is a cheat...even our own stories are obscenely distorted.

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.

Everything thing we're doing is coming out of the living Word of God.

People would pull the rug out from under me. So I learnt how to dance on a moving carpet.