One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The problem with death is absence

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

If you really know how great a competition it is to enter into the Kingdom of God is, you would have increased your competitive power greatly in your pursuit for the Kingdom of God

I'm not a poet and I know it.

Nothing worthwhile is gained without sacrifice.

You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.

All that will matter forever and ever in our heavenly state is the glory that came to God through our lives.

Capitalism has socialized production. It has brought thousands of people together in the factory and involved them in new social relationships.

I do my best to answer all questions that they might have as well as make appearances at camps and what not.

Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.

If you are going to survive in business, show business or any business, then you have to be bold.

I continue to have a special pride and passion for AOL, and I strongly believe that AOL - once the leading Internet company in the world - can return to its past greatness