Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

Peace - that was the other name for home.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.

Gut instinct, " Jeremy wheezed. "Your gut's been shot, " Mike pointed out, but he looked uncertain.

After all, why be right when you can be happy.

God could not have given this promise, except from love and grace; therefore it is quite certain his Word will be fulfilled.

I don't like being away from theater that long. The muscles get atrophied if you don't exercise them.

Familiarity seems to breed contempt

Each child comes to us with a message from God and it is our job to help them deliver that message.

I realized that the only way to get into a good college was to be valedictorian or salutatorian. So that was my goal.

Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.

If you listen to neurologists and psychiatrists, you'd never fall in love.

Success makes enemies of those who would have never been true friends.