How often we fail to realize our good fortune in living in a country where happiness is more than a lack of tragedy.

How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?

You know you’ve read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.

True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful.

A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.

Elevate your mind and you elevate your world.

You’re too beautiful for your own good. Once you leave, we’ll have to send some of the guards with you. You’ll never survive on your own, poor thing.

The grain of real knowledge is concealed in a vast deal of esoteric chaff.

I'm trying to do things I have never done. Like I recently went to 3 different ballets. And I loved trying to learn how to like those a little bit.

Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.

When you are equal with another person, the problem of integration doesn't even arise.

That's reality, it's accessibility. People are used to seeing me like that for the last year, I think, ... To avoid it is avoidance. We're not going to avoid things.

Faith keeps the person who keeps the faith.

The ultimate Path is without difficulty. Just avoid picking and choosing.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.