If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The problem with death is absence

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

Leslie, don’t you believe that I know who you will marry, and that I’m capable of leading you to that right man someday?

The public good must come before private interests.

Part of this new world of completely improvisational terrorism is that there were codes of war that disintegrated in the face of terrorism.

Make no mistake about the intention of these secularists: It is to discredit the voice of Christians so that America will tolerate only one view.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

For me, the stars are the invisible people on the street that people don't really get a chance to know.

Get some facts and come back and see me!

Glory fills the world with virtue, and, like a beneficent sun, covers the whole earth with flowers and with fruits.

Real children do not go hoppity skip unless they are on drugs.