A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

A man's real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks.

Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

Forgiveness unleashes joy. It brings peace. It washes the slate clean. It sets all the highest values of love in motion.

Any faith in Him, however small, is better than any belief about Him, however great.

No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.

To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.

It is by loving and not by being loved that one can come nearest to the soul of another.

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

It is my conviction that when events are forgotten, buried in the cellar of the page, they are no longer even history.

I deeply believe that a beautiful decor can have a beneficial influence on our lives.

Explore daily the will of God.

I love the broad margin to my life.

Institutions which have too much security ... tend to become bureaucratic. They add layers of people and layers of rules in order to assure the security of not making mistakes.

We may have bad weather in Ireland, but the sun shines in the hearts of the people and that keeps us all warm.

I never give answers. I lead on from one question to another. That is my leadership.

You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice.

I live or die by how well I act.