There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness.

The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there already.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

That is the supreme value of history. The study of it is the best guarantee against repeating it.

The true definition of a snob is one who craves for what separates men rather than for what unites them.

It's a great life, if you don't weaken.

Every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.

The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

I would have been content with any job however thankless, in any quarter however remote, if I had a chance of making a corner of the desert blossom and the solitary place glad.

Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.

They take journalism really seriously because they know the force that it is and can be.

Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers.

One out of every five page views in the United States is on Facebook!

Knowledge fueled by emotion equals action.

I think there will be linkages between the U.S. and Europe and I think there will be linkages between the U.S. and Asia; that is probably a little further off.

Whenever you create a universal device that does all things for all people, it does not do any things well.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

I never faked anything. I never played the Disney game of smiling and being a princess and then suddenly having a hard time, saying, "That isn't who I really am.

I hope I can write toward my interests. But poets should be afraid of too fluidly responding to what they're interested in.