Is there any pleasure on earth as great as the circle of Christian friends by a good fire?

Slight changes simply make a blur.

The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.

The greatest adventure is what lies ahead. Today and tomorrow are yet to be said. The chances, the changes are all yours to make. The mold of your life is in your hands to break.

How do you move on? You move on when your heart finally understands that there is no turning back.

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

The chief purpose of life, for any of us, is to increase according to our capacity our knowledge of God by all means we have, and to be moved by it to praise and thanks.

All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

It simply isn't an adventure worth telling if there aren't any dragons.

It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.

Instead of a Dark Lord, you would have a queen, not dark but beautiful and terrible as the dawn! Tempestuous as the sea, and stronger than the foundations of the earth! All shall love me and despair!

Are we safe from human exposure? I don't want the owners to find a busted-up angel and a buzzed vampire lurking in their shed and freak out.

I understood that pain was real and sometimes things didn't last. Sometimes you just had to enjoy it while it lasts and cherish it when it's gone.

My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.

The students at Yale came from all different backgrounds and all parts of the country. Within months, I knew many of them.

Time is like a handful of sand - the tighter you grasp it, the faster it runs through your fingers.

The first hour of the morning is the rudder of the day. It is a blessed baptism which gives the first waking thoughts into the bosom of God.

When NBC told me I got the job, I asked, 'Can we do it from New York?' There was just silence on the phone

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote.

It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.