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.

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.

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.

Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.

All the answers i seek lie within me, but inner quietude is mandatory before those become loud and clear.

It is not enough to speak but to speak truth

Whatever evil befalls us we ought to ask ourselves ... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion from one bitter root to raise perhaps many flowers.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

I'd love to interview Mick Jagger, but that might be scary.

One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.

He gaped at the controls. "Why is my ship talking back to me?

If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy.

Reality ensures that the end of history will never come.

When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken.