"Your security does not lie in the hands of Kerry, Bush or al-Qaeda. Your security is in your own hands."

"My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides."

"We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another."

"Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places."

"Now they're bouncing messages off the stars. Bet the messages aren't worth the technology. Think of 'See you Friday, Ethel', chattering round the eternal spheres."

"A young lady who faints may awake chivalrous sentiments in gentleman; a young lady who weeps engenders only a strong desire to be elsewhere."

"I've been on a calender, but never on time."

"God is love,and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him."

"The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green."

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."

"Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others."

"Virtue is insufficient temptation."