Things last so much longer than people.

Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.

Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart...filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.

Love is the light that you see by.

There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.

It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.

It takes a small town to keep you humble.

Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain't. So the results of man's labor will never be equal.

not all clever words are true. ... And inversely most things that are true are not clever.

Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world.

Once you break someone’s heart, you are forever its master.

So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.

... you cannot shake hands with the Devil and not get sulphur on your sleeve.

Become conscious of being conscious.

A new breeze is blowing--and a nation refreshed by freedom stands ready to push on: there is new ground to be broken, and new action to be taken.

If you've got to work for the rest of your life, you'd better do something you'll enjoy.

The base emotions Plato banned have left a radio-active and not radiant land.

Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.

My mother was married to one of the greatest newsmen of all times. CNN was built out of his idealism and his recognition that, in a global age, we needed greater understanding of the world around us.