Ah, what is it we send up thither, where our thoughts are either a dissonance or a sweetness and a grace?

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 ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

The harder you try to suppress the truth, the more inevitable it is that it will find a way to come out.

When people are rude to other people. When people belittle other people. Bullies really bother me a lot. A lot, a lot.

As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.

There is plenty of time to argue with new ideas later. They key is to take careful notes first and debate second.

The British soldier who thought himself superior, actually became so.

Whether or not I can get an interview from hip-hop media, that's not going to effect whether or not I can go on tour in Asia and Europe and see all of these different places and experiences.

Everyone's dying. A little, every day. Make it count.

The religious lifestyle keeps you focused. It's helpful when trying to manoeuvre through the music scene.

Exercise is an unnatural act.