I stumble. I balance. I keep walking. Because I know that at the end of my journey is my dream destination.

Hope is that tiny flame in a candle that continues to glow even after the wax around it has melted.

We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

The causes of familial discord and distance are countless, but the results are often the same: secrecy, blame, sadness, hurt, confusion, and feelings of loss and grief.

Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.

Gambling is legal and betting is legal, for what I bet.

Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem.

To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.

The beginning of peace is a smile

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.

There's one tiny little gap in the universe left, just about to close. And it takes a lot of power to send this projection. I'm in orbit around a supernova. I'm burning up a sun just to say good bye.