Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.

Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves, and where they dream.

The problem with death is absence

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Slum kids die slowly, their lives eroded at so languid a pace that even they would have trouble tracing the disintegration. To the children of war death explodes like a car bomb.

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

The only reason I wanted 'Making Toast' as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there's the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved

God hides treasure in dirt, so that only those humble enough to dig through it find it.

Holy desire can be learned. All prayer is part work and part rest.

Living in a society, instead of on a desert island, does not relieve a man of the responsibility of supporting his own life.

Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.

Even an idle phone conversation when driving takes a 40 percent bite out of your focus and, surprisingly, can have the same effect as being drunk.

You can't put this possum in a cage

Molly was committing dinner. . .

Fill each day with light and heart.

Not gifted with genius but honestly holding his experiences deep in his heart, he kept his simplicity and humanity.

Little Lamb, who made thee? Dost thou know who made thee?