“Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.”

“You cant invite love with hate.”

“When you fill life with mourning and complaints, your accomplishments will be a little lower than success.”

“Happy people tend to be those who take pleasure in simple things.”

“Happiness changes the way you see the world.”

“This life-enhancing, happiness-inducing miracle drug that does, in fact, ruthlessly kill its enemiesyouve guessed itis gratitude.”

“Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.”

“Frightfully pale and perpetually odd”

“We had come from lecture halls, school desks and factory workbenches, and over the brief weeks of training, we had bonded together into one large and enthusiastic group. Grown up in an age of secur...”

“Bottom line: you never ever saw him looking wrong. Knowing this, I felt a cold shiver down my spine when I read in the Minneapolis StarTribune that when his body was found in the elevator at Paisle...”

“History is the essence of innumerable biographies.”

“I liked reading biographies of writers, even if (as was the case with Monsieur Rabelais)I'd never read any of their actual writing. I flipped to the back and found the highlighted quote ("NEVER USE...”

“How often do we tell our own life story? How often do we adjust, embellish, make sly cuts? And the longer life goes on, the fewer are those around to challenge our account, to remind us that our li...”

“Because I always feel like runningNot away, because there is no such placeBecause if there was, I would have found it by nowBecause it's easier to run,Easier than staying and finding out you're the...”

“The paths carved by the divine carpenter into her palms are actually treasure maps showing the way to heaven.”