Love was the best present of all.

She was petite, small in that way that made a man want to slay dragons.

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending.

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

I had to do something," she said. "I couldn't just sit and wait for life to happen to me any longer.

I vow to spend the rest of my life keeping your hands and feet warm.

I don't know whether to toss you through that window or shake your hand and say 'Well done'" Henry said in a tired voice.

sometimes there are reasons for our fears that we can’t quite explain. Sometimes it’s just something we feel in our bones, something we know to be true, but would sound foolish to anyone else.

She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.

James - "Are you paying attention or just trying to make me look like an idoit?" Elizabeth - "Oh, I'm definately paying attention. If you look like an idiot it has nothing to do with me.

Sometimes Hen...I think I would give my life just for one of your smiles.

Everyone else was trying to make things more complicated and Cronkite, typically, was trying to make them more simple.

Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you.

I've had a long career and I want to continue to have a long career. The way to do that is not to go away.

Those who do not confront evil resent those who do.

Never get so stuck in being responsible and mindful that you can't let it all go and run off chasing your private dream, if it leads to the shiny worlds, the worlds of beauty.

There is nothing so deep and nothing so shallow which political enmity will not turn to account.

It was an unspoken pleasure, that having come together so many years, ruined so much and repaired a little, we had endured.

The hero is never the star of the story.

There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore not beyond religion too.

Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.