Peace - that was the other name for home.

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.

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

Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.

The forms are many in which the unchanging seeks relief from its formlessness.

Opportunity is another word for moving on. And it is a word choice, which is often the wiser. If the well gets poisoned, move to a meadow of merriment, where your hearts will echo the more.

He liked to think of himself as a merciless vivisector probing into the palpitating entrails of his own soul.

It was one of the many rules in the kennel, rules that didn't always make sense, or even seem important, until some situation drew the lesson out.

It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.

Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis of recognition of oneness of the entire humanity. This is the modern reality.

Trophies separate the winners from losers, and life is about winning and losing. Go into business and you see. You're competing every day.

Man errs not that he deems His welfare his true aim, He errs because he dreams The world does but exist that welfare to bestow.

No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community.