But that is what life is all about, he said. "It is about dreaming and making those dreams come true with effort and determination - and love.

Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives.

Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.

Future indifferences is no consolation for present pain.

And so silence and ...darkness hold happiness and joy?" he said softly."Assuredly, " she said, "provided one listens to the silence and gazes deeply into the darkness. Everything is there. Everything.

After a few awkward moments, Lizzy joined them and they skipped along the avenue, the three of them, laughing and whooping and altogether making an undignified spectacle of themselves.

It is only through us that God lives. When we abandon him, he dies.

Without failure, there is no success.

I have had my say, as he wished. Now the book belongs, as he points out, to the world he claims to speak for.

He that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

God Almighty does not throw dice.

I've learned that I shouldn't shrink from success. Though honestly I thought they'd be knocking on my door years ago.

The War of 1812 perhaps the least remembered of American wars because it was fought in such a left-handed slapdash manner on both sides.

Any social movement that seeks to benefit only its own members I think is a shallow movement and probably doomed to failure.

Meetings are places where dead ideas rise from their graves and eat the brains of the living.

I was such a heavy drinker I was going to die at age 37. Not to mention the drugs. I'm glad to be sober, I haven't missed a thing. A lot of people never get the chance to come back.