perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.

Peace is the wait of the patient soul.

One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.

And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

A great magazine is sort of a net for ability.

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

So I left words of forgiveness to God and liars and I enjoyed my hatred.

Remember, truth cannot be conquered. One has to surrender to truth, one has to be conquered by truth.

Gloria was still talking, something about how shooting people was in a sense safer than making art, in terms of avoiding serious lapses in taste.

The blood of Christ covers all of our sins, but each of us must do personal business with God in order to experience his forgiveness.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

This is your moment! Seize the opportunity to be great!

No battle plan survives first contact with the enemy. Not when the enemy is me.

Has the pope questioned the faith of any communist leaders? He spends a lot of time in communist countries.

When I was training, those were some of the most indelible experiences I've ever had, in my life. It is so raw. It is so human. It is so candid.