Out of the chill and the shadow, into the thrill and the shine. Out of the dearth and the famine, into the fulness divine.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Spring is beautiful, and summer is perfect for vacations, but autumn brings a longing to get away from the unreal things of life, out into the forest at night with a campfire and the rustling leaves.

Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

No one should teach who is not in love with teaching.

The people who dream are very often the people who see, and dreaming and seeing precede doing.

Never yet was a springtime, when the buds forgot to bloom.

Kindness is the truest wisdom of life and we cannot go far without it.

I thank you, God, in Heaven, for friends.

At Christmas-tide the open hand Scatters its bounty o'er sea and land, And none are left to grieve alone, For Love is heaven and claims its own.

... Love is heaven and claims its own.

Thus the little mermaid learned her world’s greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

Don't be a pal to your son. Be his father. What child needs a 40-year-old for a friend?

To the extent that we live in a postmodern world and it shapes the concrete circumstances of our daily lives, I would say postmodernism affects my work or influences my work.

I have already lost touch with a couple of people I used to be

To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous.

No one else knows I'm alive, which means they won't notice when I'm gone.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

I went to a 7-11 and asked for a 2x4 and a box of 3x5's. The clerk said, "ten-four."

Capitalism knows only one color: that color is green; all else is necessarily subservient to it, hence, race, gender and ethnicity cannot be considered within it.