The longer you remain in Rome, ' said [Cardinal] S.C., ‘the smaller you will find it.

I believe writing is a gift God gave us to share His thoughts poured out upon us! Writing is a talent needing care and comfort

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

The way in which we think of ourselves has everything to do with how our world sees us and how we can see ourselves successfully acknowledged by that world.

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

The new Pope, Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, is now Pope Francis the 1st. Francis was not his first choice for a name. But the Vatican wisely talked him out of Pope Boo Boo.

I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.

Don't be too precious about your craft... there's only 26 letters and 12 notes, and Shakespeare and Beethoven said it all better than any of us ever will

It is easier to win love than to keep it.

If you can live the beauty of the misty mornings, you are the king, you are the queen!