That best academy, a mother's knee.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

You can wait your whole life for the right moment and it might never come, so I'm a big believer in making now the right moment.

Those of us in the first American generations have had to figure out how the invisible world the emigrants built around our childhoods fits in solid America.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

Why then would people look to the United Nations as an instrument of peace, if instead all it is, is an instrument of putting out declarations that nobody intends to take seriously anyway?

Everyone's different. I mean, some people write journals for their characters and stuff, but that was never really my area.

When you accepted your job, you were not chosen solely to fill a position on the organization chart; you were chosen to fill a responsibility.

I hate being the only mortal in a gathering full of Immortals who think killing each other cleverly is the height of good manners.

When I was a kid, I'd kneel down at the side of my bed every night before I went to sleep, and my mother and I would say a Greek prayer to the Virgin Mary.

Perhaps people don't come into their true maturity until a parent dies.

There is nothing wrong with changing a plan when the situation has changed.