If god created man in his own image, how come I'm not invisible?

President Kennedy was the greatest man I ever met, and the best friend I ever had.

I'm just a newsboy who met a President.

If you can't be kind at least be vague.

The true measure of a person is not in what he knows, but what he does with what he knows.

You shouldn’t be placing hope in our lives, Parvin. That’s my point. I don’t know the answers of the future, but your confidence and hope need to be in God.

She kissed him tonight, just like she had the first time twelve years ago, with everything she had.

I want to be in a place where I have to have God in everything I do . . . where God is indispensable to me.

Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.

Tell people - and they may forget... show them - they may remember... but involve them and they will understand.

It is always so much easier to be moral than it is to be spiritual.

The praise we seek for our own virtues sometimes tempts us to flatter the imperfections of other men.

My life is as good as an Abba song. It’s as good as Dancing Queen.

Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of 'National Geographics,' is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in Maine, so one goes back to one's Michener.