Music is the way our memories sing to us across time.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

Never try to wear a hat that has more character than you do.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

If you place two flowers in the same vase, they will not argue over who is more beautiful.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

There's no such thing as soy milk. It's soy juice.

"Wholeheartedly" means that we give our time, love, and energy unstintingly.

Spiritual Awakening is awakening from the dream of thought.

When I'm a blonde, I can say the world is purple, and they'll believe me because they weren't listening to me.

Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help.

Art is a means of expression that must be understood by everybody, everywhere. It grows out of the earth, the textures of our lives, and our experience.

Real value isn’t in what you own, drive, wear or live. The greater value is found in love and life, health and strength, friends and family!

Elegance is timeless. It withstands trend; It withstands the commercialization of what fashion and style have become.