Men may yearn for peace, cry for peace, and work for peace, but there will be no peace until they follow the path pointed out by the Living Christ. He is the true light of men's lives.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind.

The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our home.

There should be no yelling in the home unless there is a fire.

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

True happiness comes only by making others happy.

I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations.

Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

I don't know if ghouls are allowed to live either. But there has to be a reason we exist.

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

Tourists - have some fun with New york's hard-boiled cabbies. When you get to your destination, say to your driver, "Pay? I was hitchhiking."

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

It would make life much easier if I could have total faith and not question everything all the time, but I can't do it and I won't do it.

We have to face the pain we have been running from. In fact, we need to learn to rest in it and let its searing power transform us.

I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.

Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times.

Why does a literary scholar study the world of "fiction"? To show us that the facts can never be understood except in communion with the imagination.