The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.

I can't believe what you say, because I see what you do.

Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

The place in which I'll fit will not exist until I make it.

Trust life, and it will teach you, in joy and sorrow, all you need to know.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

You have to decide who you are and force the world to deal with you, not with its idea of you.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

The American idea of racial progress is measured by how fast I become white.

Gratitude is a miracle of its own recognition. It brings out a sense of appreciation and sincerity of a being.

There’s a pressure at all hours of the day only a poem can assuage.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

Memories are doing funny things to us.

I admit it: I'm a freak who sits obsessively in front of my computer typing my name into Yahoo Search over and over again. I'm a closet Amberholic. Please help me!

There are no bad boys. There is only bad environment, bad training, bad example, bad thinking.

The holy child is waiting to be born in every instant, not just once a year.

Can words describe the fragrance of the very breath of spring?

How precious is the family as the privileged place for transmitting the faith.

I do not think there is anything deserving the name of society to be found out of London.