Some books are so familiar, reading them is like being home again.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Is it not meningitis?

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

Believe in the wonderment of life, the magic of love, and the reality of death.

Never waste any time you can spend sleeping.

The Bible is the best motivational book.

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

Democracy's ceremonial, its feast, it's great function, is the election.

The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation.

The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional.

My first lessons in comedy, how to construct a joke, I learned from Eileen Brennan, who had unbelievable timing.

Wherever a ray of solar light can reach, man can reach.