A life that moves to gracious ends Thro' troops of unrecording friends, A deedful life, a silent voice.

The saddest thing about any man is that he be ignorant, and the most exciting thing is that he knows.

I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works.

Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?

For man is man and master of his fate.

One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event, To which the whole creation moves.

I am a part of all whom I have met.

Science moves, but slowly, slowly, creeping on from point to point.

The greater the man the greater the courtesy.

It becomes no man to nurse despair, but, in the teeth of clenched antagonisms, to follow up the worthiest till he die.

O hard, when love and duty clash!

Yet he saw that in all places there was originality, resulting from the human efforts at decoration and ingenious methods of survival.

Doubt manifests itself in indecision.

By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.

The great secret of social alchemy is to profit best from each stage in our lives, to gather all its leaves in spring, all its flowers in summer, and all its fruits in autumn.

Every friendship with God and every love between Him and a soul is the only one of its kind.

If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.

Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us to practice?

I hide my grief, just like the blessed birds hide themselves when they are preparing to die, my love.

People don't even know that we have political prisoners.

I'm pleased it turned out the way that it did, because I know lots of other people who did fantastic work and did not see this particular kind of recognition [like Emmy].