Any game becomes important when you know and love the players.

Growing up is a ritual, more deadly than religion, more complicated than baseball, for there seem to be no rules. Everything is experienced for the first time.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.[Eddie Scissons]

I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.

Serenity is a very elusive quality. I've been trying all my life to find it.

I wonder if there are soft-spoken voices who deliver assignments to all of us in various times ... It is nice to think I have company-that others dance to the muted music I hear.

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.

She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.

The sightseers would have been disappointed, as the real thing always makes a poorer show than the fake. ("I'm Dangerous Tonight")

You've probably missed out something really great but you haven't let that drive you insane but always remember to be yourself.

Among the smaller duties in life I hardly know any one more important than that of not praising when praise is not due.

It's strange, but seeing something broken is somehow worse when you can tell that it used to be beautiful.

Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle, even though they may at times be necessary.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Remedying the deficiencies of seminary curricula is a difficult question because of all kinds of vested political interests long at work in the building of any curriculum.

So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate.