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.

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

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

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.

Life is a book. There are many pages to be written.

My ideal journey: set out early and never arrive.

If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility.

They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.

With rushing winds and gloomy skies The dark and stubborn Winter dies: Far-off, unseen, Spring faintly cries, Bidding her earliest child arise; March!

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

I suppose because our hearts are made in a certain way we cannot help being what we are.

If you're an MTV fan, you like all the stuff that's on MTV.

I cannot change the world, but I do not have to conform.

In every woman's wardrobe, there are certain accessories that cannot be separated from their back stories.