Ambition is but the evil shadow of aspiration.

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.

The burning flame is a spirit of light.

Baseball is more than a game to me, it's a religon.

Fine feelings, new insights, greater interest in ʿreligionʾ mean nothing unless they make our actual behavior better.

If you look at my Twitter feed it is 99% links, but 1% is me responding and 1% of a big number is a big number.

I'm an artist, and the need to get inside myself and be creative and be other people is a part of who I am. I don't imagine I'll abandon that completely.

...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist.

It's so rare to see a woman's sexuality, real female sexuality, either in the shows or in the clothes.

One thing about cold weather: it brings out the statistician in everyone.

Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.

It is a general rule of human nature that people despise those who treat them well, and look up to those who make no concessions.