Pat Conroy embraced his new hometown with the grateful passion of a refugee.

We do not have to go in search of passion. Instead we need to search for God, who plants the seed of passion in our hearts.

If there's one thing Robert had learned in three weeks at Lovecraft Middle School, it's that nothing was impossible.

Whoever does decide to awaken should put their whole effort, attention, and life into it, in order to make it succeed.

This one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press toward the mark!

The great do not always prevail.

Every day I wake up and decide: today I'm going to love my life.

The key point is kindness. With kindness one will have inner peace. Through inner peace, world peace can one day be a reality.

What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps.

Common sense is the measure of the possible.

The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all.