May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.

Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.

Let us learn to skillfully draw good out of what would otherwise cause us harm.

Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart strength to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles.

A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied.

Education is the movement from darkness to light

Kieran glanced at her with shimmering eyes. Neither looked quite human: The black eye was too dark, the silver too metallic. And yet the overall effect was haunting, inhumanly beautiful.

In any conflict, the crazier party generally wins.

Success isn't always going to be a huge contract success is going to be if you just live out your purpose in life.

In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns.

I hate the idea of making any of my children into a mini-me. That would be terrible.

The arts are not a luxury. They are an integral part of our lives as individuals and as a nation.

We say that word [bureaucracy] with such contempt. But it's that contempt that keeps this thing that we own and we pay for as something that's working against us.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water.

We struggle with, agonize over and bluster heroically about the great questions of life when the answers to most of these lie hidden in our attitude toward the thousand minor details of each day.