If you really want to be happy, don't just go for the money. Go for the relationship that lasts. Go for things of greater value.

If you follow the devil, your journey will end up in the hell! This is what happens to those who follow the dictators!

I think a person who arranges the event and orders the food also picks up the check - even the birthday person, even when people at the table insist on paying for the birthday person.

We need to love people with our deeds AND our words because sharing the Good News is a process, not just an event.

Togetherness is a substitute sense of community, a counterfeit communion.

Few there were who could change his courses by counsel. None by force.

In dramatic writing, the very essence is character change. The character at the end is not the same as he was at the beginning. He's changed-psychologically, maybe even physically.

I think a lot of American poets are swimming-pool Soviets. A lot of them have taken the comfortable, self-protective route too often. I know that I certainly have. That's easy to do.

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

People do ask me if I think I can make it in the States.