I don't know if anyone ever 'wins' a war.

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning-raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

No matter how hard times are, people still want music.

Beautiful hours move so quickly.

We mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.

Children are not created fully equipped with such values as courage, compassion, integrity, and insights into the motives and needs of themselves and of others.

...I wondered why so much had been written about love's pain and so little about the glorious relief of being delivered from love's pain.

One never stops climbing, Julie, unless he wants to stop and vegetate. There’s always something just ahead.

I was especially perceptive to all things beautiful that morning—raspberries in blue china bowls were enough to make the heart sing.

that old Mrs. Bishop was lacking in the qualities that make a good mother. And saying it that way makes her sound a good deal better than she really was.

A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well but will sometimes strike on a rock and go to the bottom whilst a republic is a raft which will never sink but then your feet are always in water.

If the ego is inflated it must be gradually deflated.

Ordinary parties, he thought, were subtle games of sexual and social badminton.

If there is any one truth from the legacy of the Cayce readings, it would be that there is a spiritual dimension to humans, something beyond time and space.

I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.

I'm not a hard-line Republican, because I'm a lot more open-minded than that.

A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

People like what they like. They're gonna do what they're gonna do.

I think things just tend to fall into place… if you let them.

If you're running because you want a job that's prestigious or because you have this vague knowledge that you're better than everybody else, you're easier to beat.