We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.

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.

When you feel weak, energize yourself with the power of love, love everyone and everything, this world will be yours.

Be careful how close you get to someone... It just ends up hurting more than not having no one to love to begin with.

You are free to choose. You are not free not to choose. No choice is a choice. You are free to choose but you are not free to choose the consequences of that choice.

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.

I never used to get homesick when I first moved to L.A.

It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it.

I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.

I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.

Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake.