Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it's all over.

Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of heaven, some companionship in Jesus, they probably would have committed suicide, their lives were so hellish.

I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining.

What I'm working on now - I'm back to fantasy, although considering that it's me, I'm turning it into a kind of science fantasy. It's a vampire story - but my vampires are biological vampires. They didn't become vampires because someone bit them; they were born that way.

I recognize we will pay more attention when we have different leadership.

Sydney's a beautiful city. It was a great experience.

Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.

Religion and gods and beliefs - for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole - it's about human connections.

It's hard asking someone with a broken heart to fall in love again.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

At sea a fellow comes out. Salt water is like wine, in that respect.

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.

And know that I am with you always; yes, to the end of time.

So I say to you, Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened for you.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you.

All the commandments: You shall not commit adultery, you shall not kill, you shall not steal, you shall not covet, and so on, are summed up in this single command: You must love your neighbor as yourself.

I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of Death.

Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God; trust also in me.

Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.

Little children, you are from God, and have conquered them; for the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in this world.

Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

I tell you the truth, it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.

And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with Me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading.

A country so rich that it can send people to the moon still has hundreds of thousands of its citizens who can't read. That's terribly troubling to me.

I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.

Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.

The love of family and the admiration of friends is much more important than wealth and privilege.

I suppose I was a little bit of what would be called today a nerd. I didn't have girlfriends, and really I wasn't a very social boy.

You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.

Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Just by luck, I picked good heroes to worship.

Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet.

Surely martyrs, irrespective of the special phase of the divine idea for which they gladly give up their bodies to torture and to death, are the truest heroes of history.