Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

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.

Most good programmers do programming not because they expect to get paid or get adulation by the public, but because it is fun to program.

In recent years, anyone in the government, certainly anyone in the FBI or the CIA, or recently, in again, Clint's film, In the Line of Fire, the main bad guy is the chief advisor to the president.

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution.

Well, you know, I look at myself in the morning and yes, yeah I-I am a God.

My mom told me she thinks a man in the market felt her up today. I asked, Where did he touch you? She said, On my knee, Bobby.

Encourage one another. Many times a word of praise or thanks or appreciation or cheer has kept people on their feet.

A woman may race to get a man a gift but it always ends in a tie.

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

There are no new truths, but only truths that have not been recognized by those who have perceived them without noticing.

Giving life to music through skating was something I wanted to be known for