None of us knows what the next change is going to be what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner waiting to change all the tenor of our lives.

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Peace - that was the other name for home.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

I know that men are so eager to be one among the stars.I feel that damaged earth will never let men go off hand.

If you invite a snake into your home, do not be surprised if it bites you.

We must be able to look under the surface rather than over-analyze it and delude ourselves into thinking we’re seeing beneath it.

You know, my main goal in life is trying not to end up in a straightjacket.

She wears high tech Devo suit, she changed her name to Xerox, she hides quaaludes in her boots.

When you have to jump, you jump.

I think we all have a love/hate relationship with the media.

Style, in the broadest sense of all, is consciousness. More specifically it is a consistent idiom arising spontaneously from the personality but deliberately maintained.

We're not making up merit scores for ourselves. We're making up merit scores so that we can be reborn in a situation where we can really live to benefit ourselves and others.

You don't do characters that are the same as you, otherwise why bother to act?