People: 'There are amazingly wonderful people in all walks of life; some familiar to us and others not. Stretch yourself and really get to know people. People are in many ways one of our greatest treasures.'

Influence: 'If you study the Parable of the Sower, its surface suggests that people are much like a field that needs to be sowed with the seeds of good example…

Ambition: 'Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress.'

Comedy: Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.

If we have no peace, it is because we forget we belong to each other.

We haven't all had the good fortune to be ladies; we haven't all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand o…

And the angel's body was bared, and he was clothed in light so that eye could not look on him; and his voice grew louder, as though it came not from him but fr…