Posterity preserves only what will pack into small compass. Jewels are handed down from age to age; less portable valuables disappear.

A happy marriage is a new beginning of life, a new starting point for happiness and usefulness.

The true call of a Christian is not to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things in an extraordinary way.

The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face.

In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom

I think in reality the Japanese have to make changes in monetary policy, otherwise we're still going to be dealing with some upward pressure on the yen against the dollar.

Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.

I have looked on scenery as a strange and on scenery more grand, but on scenery at once so strange and so grand I have never looked and probably never shall again.

The greatness of God is the true rebuke to the littleness of men. The greatness of Christ is the true rebuke to the littleness of Christians.

Each one of us is bound to make the little circle in which he or she lives better and happier. Bound to see that out of that small circle the widest good may flow.

I doubt if hard work, steadily and regularly carried on, ever yet hurt anybody.

You are part of divine purpose. You have a divine power within you.

There are angels on the tree?”“Ah, because we all pray there are really angels watching over us, don’t we?

Sixteen years after 9/11, we still don't even know what to call the enemy, rather than form a comprehensive strategy.

Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life.

Sleeping alone seemed unnatural to me, and pitiful, something done in hospitals or when you're contagious.

Readers have to be sought out and won to the light of the page, poem by poem, one by one by one.

Someday you'll miss her like she missed you. Someday you'll need her like she needed you. Someday you'll love her and she won't love you.

So long as we are in conflict with our body, we cannot find peace of mind.

How can we learn self-knowledge? Never by taking thought but rather by action. Try to do your duty and you'll soon discover what you're like.

What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . .