Free societies...are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, dissent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence.

---

The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.

---

If you can prove the existence of God, it can only be proven through love.

---

People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. ― Karl Lagerfeld

---

While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles. So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

---

Everything is nothing, with a twist.

---

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. ― Elbert Hubbard

---

Laughing is good exercise. It's like jogging on the inside.

---

The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are.

---

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.

---