Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

Go forward while you can, but if your strength fails you, sit down near the road and gaze without anger or envy at those who pass by. They don't have far to go, either.

Death's an old joke, but each individual encounters it anew.

Circumstances define us; they force us onto one road or another, and then they punish us for it.

Time, as is well known, sometimes flies like a bird and sometimes crawls like a worm, but human beings are generally particularly happy when they don't notice whether it's passing quickly or slowly.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Take what you can yourself, and don't let others get you into their hands; to belong to oneself, that is the whole thing in life.

In my case there was no first love. I began with the second.

You sure you're all right? You aren't out here pondering dark female thoughts are you?

Truly it is a blessed thing to love on earth as we hope to love in Heaven, and to begin that friendship here which is to endure for ever there.

Mel exhaled. "Why are you forcing me into the voice-of-reason role? You know that never works out for us.

I'm a simple person who hides a thousand feeling behind the happiest smile.

We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.

You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.

I'm born in Alaska, grew up in Colorado, went to college in Colorado, went to Colorado State, and I actually finished my degree.

Evangelizing includes the endeavor to elicit a response to the truth taught.

All leaders share something in common. They feel they are the only ones who can do the job.

The beginning of peace is a smile