I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesnt hurt, either.

Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.

There are constant cycles in history. There is loss, but it is always followed by regeneration. The tales of our elders who remember such cycles are very important to us now.

If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.

Whatever we perceive as good in the world has always endured, and it always will.

I began telling stories as a volunteer in my daughters' school. But I grew up hearing stories from Cuban and Southern storytellers, and I learned a great deal by just being quiet and listening.

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

More than 65,000 horses were slaughtered in the United States in 2004, a 50 percent increase since 2002.

My love for those I love -- not many -- not very many, but don't I love them so?

Words are women, deeds are men.

As never before does the keeping of our economic machine in tune depend upon wise policies in the administrative side of the government.

Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron.

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.

Because of 'Lost,' particularly, J.J. Abrams's fans are all over his stuff.

The more you kick me when I'm down, the more it truly helps.

It occurs to me that artists go forward by going backward, something which I have nothing against intrinsically when it is a reproduced retreat - as is the case with the better artists.