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

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.

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

Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

Clean water is a great example of something that depends on energy. And if you solve the water problem, you solve the food problem.

The pain of sacrificing our old selves is nothing compared to the joy of Christ living in us in our transformed lives.

Never think of pain or danger or enemies a moment longer than is necessary to fight them.

I am probably more critical of myself than anyone else, I am very tiny - 5'1 and a half inches - so there's nowhere for weight to hide.

Nowadays it seems more and more like the 'business' in 'show business' is underlined, and there are campaigns, and it's all part of getting people in to see the movies.

There were no terrorists in Iraq. There's never been an Iraqi terrorist.

The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs.

Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education and the assassin of freedom.

I've always wanted to land a 1080, it's been a beast of a burden for me.

Insight into the two selves within a man clears up many confusions and contradictions. It was our understanding that preceded our victory.