a good friendship euchres the universe.

When you totally commit yourself to a project and do your work quietly and well, unknown friends will find you and angels will surround you.

The measure of a country’s prosperity should not be how many poor people drive cars, but how many affluent people use public transportation.

Most stories are not about peoplebut about life, an addiction like the rest of themthat destroys you even as you love it, but you love it anyway and can never get enough.

We fit the pieces of our life together in a pattern, but there is no image on the puzzlebox to guide us.

Sometimes we know people who aretoo wonderful for words. I am not one of them.Or you, for that matter, as you well know.

Anyone who pretends to "understand" Latin America is a fool.

We give more economic aid to multinational corporations to increase their profits than we do to all the countries in the world combined.

All the wrong questions have been asked and the correct answers are not true.

The faithfulness of God is forever sure.

You won't find your soul in a textbook, self-help book, or buy it in a store. Sometimes, it's just a matter of looking past the anger, regret, and envy to see its smiling face.

Plots come to me at such odd moments, when I am walking along the street, or examining a hat shop…suddenly a splendid idea comes into my head.

The idea of being able to serve as an example, based upon how to process, how to think, how to realize our own dreams, we can pass that down to our children.

It's just an easy catchall to describe a style because there are a lot of alternative comics who are completely different from each other.

O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted And, like a cheerful traveller, take the road Singing beside the hedge.

The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.

Our bodies are home to trillions of microbes, and these creatures define who we are.

Gratitude is the antidote to bitterness and resentment.

You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.