Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children.

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.

Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.

I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.

It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.