The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.

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.

Fear has been good to yours truly.

Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything.

To be happy means to be free not from pain or fear but from care or anxiety.

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

I want to thank each and every one of you for having extinguished yourselves this session.

I had to leave home so I could find myself, find my own intrinsic nature buried under the personality that had been imposed on me.

I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.

There are two types of teachers. Those who tell you what you want to hear and those who tell you what you don't want to hear.

I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.

I grew up around backstage, and that clinched it for me.