In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

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.

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.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

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.

Slurping these spirits is soul preparation, a warped communion, myself serving as god, priest, and congregation.

What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood?

No one ever comitted suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.

Even when the time control has been reached, there is one situation where you want to act as if it has not: when your position is absolutely lost.

I suspect there will never be a requiem for a dream, simply because it will destroy us before we have the opportunity to mourn it's passing.

Be willing to absorb some risk and failures to allow people freedom to express themselves.

Sympathy is a sweet thing.

We're looking out for the financial best interests of the up-and-comer. Everything connects to that.

Being nuts is its own reward.

Faith comes not through pondering but through action.