Taking the time to build community, to get to know your people will have long-lasting benefits.

Volunteerism is vital in all times; it keeps our communities alive...and will make a difference in the lives of those who will come after us.

Your will to succeed remains one of your greatest assets.

How could children have spotted what everyone else couldn’t?” “Because we haven’t killed off our imaginations, ” Aedan mumbled behind a wrapping of arms and knees.

Famous people feel that they must perpetually be on the crest of the wave, not realising that it is against all the rules of life. You can't be on top all the time, it isn't natural.

It occurs to her that there is one thing about people you can never understand well enough: how entirely inside themselves they are.

Our dependence outweighs our independence, for we are independent only in our desire, while we are dependent on our health, on nature, on society, on everything in us and outside us.

We are the only country in the world that trashes its old buildings. Too late we realize how very much we need them.

I've always taken my hangovers as consequence, not as a punishment.

Life is a full-contact sport, and there's a score up on the board.

I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead poet and a dying theologian.

The time has come when the whole world must be concerned about me. From now on, American Christianity must follow me.

One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.