They are fruit and transport: ripening melons, prairie schooners journeying under full sail.

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.

You can get addicted to trouble if you're not careful.

You will never be who you want to be, until you are happy with who you are.

Stay at peace with everyone you meet and hold no grudge with anyone for any reason.

An error of the passions is not the flowering of a great love, and merely the beauty of the human form is not capable of inspiring an eternity of mad attachment.

There are six mental faculties that we have, and how we use them sets the course for our life.

Victory is the ability to fight five minutes longer than any other army in the world.

For the Mexican people, for the Mexican government, the very good relationship with the United States of America is, of course, essential.

I'm a lioness. I have four cubs. I'm a mom. I want to take care of my kids and protect them.

I don't like Larry Merchant. He thinks he knows everything about a sport that he was never in. He walks around with papers and studies what he writes, he just pisses you off.

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.