Real courage is being kind again, after you've felt that your kindness was thrown in your face. To risk it once more, or even twice more takes a special strength.

With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere.

Liberalism can only be defined negatively. It is a mere critique, not a living idea

...good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.

[Pope] Francis ought to be taken at his word when he says, as he has often done, that he is a son of the Church who believes and teaches what the Catholic Church believes and teaches.

It is very well to be able to write a book, but can you waggle your ears?

It takes sacrifice as well as talent.

For this is what America is all about. It is the uncrossed desert and the unclimbed ridge. It is the star that is not reached and the harvest that is sleeping in the unplowed ground.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn't know what to add to it.

I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.