truth ... is the first casualty of tyranny.

Porches are America's lost rooms.

The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.

There are no original ideas. There are only original people.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.

All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

To sleep is an act of faith.

Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and doctrine, that they are God's chosen.

Food is my drug of choice.

Bryan helped me up.  "How can you be so good one minute then clumsy the next?"I shrugged.  "I've never been very athletic.  Not unless you count fencing.""You made fences?

Do not panic but pray when you face any problem.

She’d never seen such a thing back on Grave

Getting into debt, is getting into a tanglesome net.

I don't listen to much modern composition.

Tomorrow's trials concerned her more than yesterday's triumphs.

We all can dance when we find music that we love.

love means to see the one you love happy

The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It's natural. It's as natural as the ocean water is.

Everything is a test.