It does not mean much to be important. The most important man at a burial is dead.

Friends should be like books, few, but hand-selected.

We need to be grateful for many things that didn't happen.

God created the world just like a knife and left it up to us to take it by the handle or the blade.

Yes is like credit, No is like cash.

Absence is the enemy of love and the friend of friendship.

It could be disastrous to speak your mind while you are deep in thought.

Don't listen to a man who says we have to work together as a team. He means we have to work as he says.

If you really want to hurt, find someone who loves you.

A man with no enemies is no good as a friend.

There are people who are so cautious that they are careful not to waste their fear.

Rainbows would never spring from a crock full of credit cards or computer printouts.

And part of that is, what is the point of having children if you don't have the privilege of bringing them up?

Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

I hope ["reanimated the papacy"] means that the new interest in the pope evokes a new interest in the Church's teaching, of which the pope is the custodian.

If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives to all men generously and without reproaching, and it will be given him.

It is a high honour to be elected Prime Minister of Australia.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Our goal is to enjoy, not to achieve perfection

My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.

I arrived in California with no job, no car, and no money, but, like millions of other girls, a dream