All other swindlers upon earth are nothing compared to self-swindlers.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.

All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.

I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

...and to-morrow looked in my face more steadily than I could look at it

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

It takes a whole government to really screw up a war. A dollop of American hubris goes a long way too.

The righteous shall blossom.

Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.

Lincoln's heartbeat picked up a little, the way it always did when he rounded that last bend in the road and saw home waiting up ahead.Home.

placid, adj. Sometimes I love it when we just lie on our backs, gaze off, stay still.

Those who recognize the existence of suffering, its cause, its remedy, and its cessation, have fathomed the four noble truths. They will walk in the right path.

Here we were, corrupting all those Russians toward communism.

Politicians are supposed to be empathetic. And, yes, I am, actually.

The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning.