Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours.

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.

The love of money, not money, is root of all evil.

Ya got to watch them bears, Lillie Girl, ” her father said, looking worried, “ ‘specially the renegade ones. They’ll turn you every way but loose.

I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

I come from a musical kind of family.

Life is a race. If you delay starting, how can you have any hope of winning?

If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030.

I want to make films that make people laugh hard, and I am not afraid to walk away from this business tomorrow.

The Craft was what it was. People who respond to that movie respond to it really strongly.

Jared Kushner has sort of betrayed the Democratic roots that his family grew up in.

Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.