It is all new and all the same. A hundred years. A day. Ten thousand moons. For them, each day indeed is brand new, full of possibility, the unknown: a wonderland.

Even so, in the midst of this complicated love, there is a holy union.

...perhaps it wasn't a matter of strength so much as pliability, a willingness to let life become unpredictable and sometimes even unravel.

Even if the decisions one made on a given day seemed crazy, it helped to think that all things happened for a mysterious reason.

Well, they say there is no real faith without doubt.

Denial is a very effective human trick. People often tell how a situation was "unbearable, " though, clearly, they have borne it. Lived to tell, so to speak.

Gratitude is where every positive attitude starts.

Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out.

I genuinely like the people I meet at signings or the bits of public talking that I do.

We believe we are creating the beginning of a new world order coming out of the collapse of the US-Soviet antagonisms.

I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

As they used to say 'What if they gave a war and nobody came?' How worthwhile if they declared a day of peace and everybody came.

Cast out thy Jonah--every sleeping and secure sin that brings a tempest upon thy ship, vexation to thy spirit.

The doctors couldn't find anything wrong with me except that I have a slight stomach pain. Wait till I get my hospital bill! Then I'll really have a pain the stomach!

Adult males are what their moms designed them.

In painting, whether colour reflection is apparent or not, every hue must echo neighbouring hues, so that homogeneity may be attained.