When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

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.

Empathy plays a crucial role in the reduction of stress from the moment of birth.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

[A] power equal to every possible contingency must exist somewhere in the government . . .

You know honestly, I enjoy working with everyone because remember, these were all real pros that had been around the business a long time.

For me, going away to work is the hardest part of my life and career.

I told the government I'd volunteer for prison, as long as it served the right purpose.

People give up the earth for beauty.

The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.

If I were ever prosecuted for my religion, I truly hope there would be enough evidence to convict me.

We will see how the issue will turn out when they come to Baghdad.