Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it.

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine.

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.

But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the ground on which realists stand.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

Peace - that was the other name for home.

Only Christ could have brought us all together, in this place, doing such absurd but necessary things.

Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at the edges of the day.

An in-depth study of the true reason for greatness of nations, will always lead a thorough researcher to the factor of virtues and values

There will never be another woman for me, Alexandra. You are my eternity. -Michael

Strike when thou wilt the hour of rest but let my last days be my best.

We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and to maximize the benefits from what is learned in the process.

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

Religion can reform a person’s life, but it can never transform him. Only the Holy Spirit can transform!

Obviously, if you don't love life, you can't enjoy an oyster.

I want to be all used up when I die.

Soul puts the determination or forms or images of forms, into matter.

World federalists hold before us the vision of a unified mankind living in peace under a just world order... The heart of their program-a world under law- is realistic and attainable.