the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

The day is ours, and what the day has shown.

Luck, however, is too dumb to remain consistent

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.

I did learn one great lesson from a past relationship, and that was to never talk about relationships in print again because I'd rather live my private life than read about it.

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

A popular saying in Alderson went as follows: 'They work us like a horse, feed us like a bird, treat us like a child, dress us like a man - and then expect us to act like a lady.

A fool thinks it like honey so long as the bad deed does not bear fruit, but when it does bear fruit he experiences suffering.

Money cannot be converted into houses or trained teachers or hospitals at the touch of a magic wand. There are limitations to our physical and intellectual resources.

But then history does not only consist of documents.

The cinema has no boundary; it is a ribbon of dream.

All I could think to say was, "The Lakers are my home team!