As the body lives by breathing, so the soul lives by believing.
To know that one has never really tried - that is the only death
Only a few things are really important.
Fate cast me to play the role of an ugly duckling with no promise of swanning. . . . I have played my life as a comedy rather than the tragedy many would have made of it.
It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
The world doesn't go around on love between men and women. Lovers get very little done. But friends do. When you are past middle life - and I hope you have the rich experience of love along the way - don't think everything is all over. Don't regret the vanished cocktail when the stuffed turkey is about to come in. Flip out your napkin and bite into it! Friends you can gather around you in the later years of life are worth the whole thing.
If ants are such busy workers, how come they find time to go to all the picnics?
The Mass is very long and tiresome unless one loves God.
What you react to in others, you strengthen in yourself.
The only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work
When you see the earth from the moon, you don't see any divisions there of nations or states. This might be the symbol, really, for the new mythology to come. That is the country that we are going to be celebrating. And those are the people that we are one with.