Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love and to work and to play and to look up at the stars.

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity.

Some succeed because they are destined to, but most succeed because they are determined to.

A friend is what the heart needs all the time.

Every house where love abides And friendship is a guest, Is surely home, and home sweet home For there the heart can rest.

Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars.

For those who love... time is eternity.

Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

The simple life which blandly ignores all care and conflict, soon becomes flabby and invertebrate, sentimental and gelatinous.

What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.

Gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. Thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. Thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.

Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality, " but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.

You can tell who your friends are because they don’t prevent you from being on your own, because they illuminate your solitude without interrupting it.

We each come to create the reality we believe we deserve.

I graduated in 1989, and I'd focused almost entirely on the Soviet Union and communism ... so when the Berlin wall fell, I was, well, I was screwed.

I see you're leaving me and taking up with the enemy, the cold comfort of the in-between, a little less than a human being.

I don't really believe in the Devil, but if the Devil is the Father of Lies, then he certainly invented the Internet.

The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being.

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

Beauty is commonly a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.