There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life.

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.

Celebrating faith over reason is merely a way of denying what is, in favor of embracing any whim that strikes your fancy.

Believe that fate is smiling to you and everything you touch will turn into gold

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

Culture is activity of thought, and receptiveness to beauty and humane feeling. Scraps of information have nothing to do with it. A merely well informed man is the most useless bore on God's earth.

Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy.

I'm fascinated by diamonds. When I put diamonds on, my hands start to shake.

I've lived, laughed, lost, and loved again the whole Shakespearian thing.

If the Fed had a war on abortion like its war on poverty or war on drugs, within five years men would be having abortions!

My dear, if heaven is truly a place, then it is situated in your heart, that special place, that was reserved for me.

Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise.