What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.

Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.

I mean, when the world comes for your children, with the knives out, it's your job to stand in the way.

Don't believe everything you hear today

I will die like a true-blue rebel. Don't waste any time in mourning - organize.

All the world is made of music. We are all strings on a lyre. We resonate. We sing together.

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better.

I will be waiting by candlelight in our tree house of the mind.

Was there any human urge more pitiful-or more intense- than wanting another chance at something?

If the workers took a notion they could stop all speeding trains; every ship upon the ocean they can tie with mighty chains.

But God fears women even more that He fears the devil- and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man.

Don't forget to enjoy the winter, but never give up hopes for the spring.

What had he ever wanted that he could not buy? And if that wasn't riches he didn't know what was.

On average, since the urge to kill myself isn't so strong that I actually kill myself, the world is worth living in.

There has always been a battle between good and evil.

People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.

I felt old when I was young and I feel younger now. Maybe that's a trick of my mind, but I'm springier and lighter.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

I am confirmed in my belief that war is utter destructive violent chaos. There is no "art," no "order(s)," no "just war." No matter what the ideologies, wars are the same.

No one's ever asked to see my birth certificate, they know that this is the place that we were born and raised.

Pale sunlight, pale the wall. Love moves away. The light changes I need more grace than I thought.