A true friend is forever a friend.

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.

Growth requires courage, risk and the willingness to go beyond fear.

And the General regrets the night.

A lot of people go straight from denial to despair without pausing in the middle and doing something about it.

It might be a huge hit, it might not; but you learn something doing it.

I needed New Orleans so badly back in 2006, just somebody to believe in me, somebody to care about me

One stroke fells not an oke.

Decisions are being made a mile a minute while you're making the work, and it has to come out of experience and vision.

How did the senator know that children meant happiness? Could he see into their souls? What if the moment they were out of sight, three of them jumped the fourth and began beating him up?

Everything, absolutely everything on this earth makes sense, and even the smallest things are worthy of our consideration.

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.