The pessimist sees only the tunnel; the optimist sees the light at the end of the tunnel; the realist sees the tunnel and the light - and the next tunnel.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

When I hear somebody sigh, 'Life is hard,' I am always tempted to ask, 'Compared to what?'

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

History repeats itself, but in such cunning disguise that we never detect the resemblance until the damage is done.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.

Allow the resurrected Christ to allocate your time as His own . . . and have complete right-of-way throughout your being.

But it's the simple and the good that are meant to suffer in this world—ain't it, though!

And may I live the remainder of my life ... for myself may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!

Order is power.

A person's true nature will reveal itself despite disguise.

Only when the poet and the scientist work in unison will we have living experiences and knowledge of the marvels of the universe as they are being discovered.

Television glorifies war, ... And the reality is we have some remarkably brave men and women who work through such challenging circumstances to make us as safe as we are.

Orchidbreathing incense into butterfly's wings

I think natural gas has been a big part of the solution if in fact we need to reduce man-generated carbon dioxide emissions.