Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

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.

You'll be able to find the strength to love someone just that much again once you've recovered from the heartbreak

These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!

If Nature put not forth her power About the opening of the flower, Who is it that could live an hour?

We have got so many regulatory laws already that in general I feel that we would be just as well off if we didn't have any more.

Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.

Truth sees God, and wisdom contemplates God, and from these two comes a third, a holy and wonderful delight in God, who is love.

An artist should let his style evolve naturally, spontaneously.

I think the whole concept of dating is deeply flawed, so maybe it's a good thing to be undateable. There's a difference between being unlovable and undateable.

I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.