The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Some things are best mended by a break.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

The heart is not like a box that gets filled up; it expands in size the more you love.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.