When you come to a place where you have to left or right, go straight ahead.

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.

Avrei voluto entrargli nei pensieri, scivolare lenta sotto i suoi silenzi e perdermi nel suo mondo.

Man is the head of the family, just as Christ is the Head of the Church.

We are limited by knowledge, not by courage.

Applaud my friends, the comedy is over...[on his death bed]

Be not deceived God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.

That's the thing - I've never really been single. I always end up in a relationship immediately.

I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.

If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts.

The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the service of the people of this nation and their aspirations.

Number one rule for fiction: Coincidence can be used to worsen a characters predicament, but never to solve his problems.