Abstinence is a window of clarity through which one can better find one's work and one's mate.

Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

Handwriting is civilization's casual encephalogram.

A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

Never try to wear a hat that has more character than you do.

As they marched, the crowds lining the route broke into applause, a sweet and deeply felt spontaneous pattering that was a sort of communal embrace. Welcome home.

Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.

Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business.

One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.

Many Christians who profess Christ do not live as though they possess Him.

It is important that you never place limitations on learning, personal growth, traveling, reading and making a positive difference in your life and others.

Here is the fate of the man: To appear and to disappear!

When they attack you and you notice that you love them with all your heart, your Work is done.

A fan without a team is like a hog without truffles - she has nothing to root for.

We women ought to put first things first. Why should we mind if men have their faces on the money, as long as we get our hands on it?

She remembered no one at all. She remembered one day thinking: I am alone. There is no I but I. She lived in the dark. She taught herself to walk in the light, though it was not easy.

It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.

I'm not going to hang out with celebrities, I'm not going to parties. I have two songs due for Moana next week, and I'm going to go and spend some time with Maui and Moana in the ocean, in my mind.

One of the problems of our youth is that the family unit is broken up. When we'd sit down to dinner together as a family, we'd learn about each other. We had something people don't get today.