The High Plains, the beginning of the desert West, often act as a crucible for those who inhabit them.

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Peace - that was the other name for home.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

The only movies I want to do are the ones I'm passionate about. I care about school, and I'm still a kid. I want to live like that while I can.

If children have interests, then education happens.

We can't stop trying til we break up our minds, til the sun drips blood on the seedy young knight.

Destiny and history are untidy.

I wish I was the verb 'to trust' and never let you down.

I like how glasses suggest intelligence instead of broken eyes.

Donald Trump is not a jerk. He's a friend of ours.

But foremost, I do not subscribe to the view that Islamic culture and democracy cannot be reconciled.

I think that Benjamin Franklin felt very strongly in foreign policy in this world, that you needed to at least show some humility, especially when you were strong.

Hitting the bottle again, ever than I've drunker been. Or is it drunker than I've ever been?