And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.

If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.

The Master hath called us, in life's early morning, With spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod: We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scorning, To cast in our lot with the people of God.

Goodbye, kind year, we walk no more together. But here in quiet happiness we part.

You cannot marry your past without divorcing your future.

Because you’re not a one-night girl, Irish.” (...) “You’re my forever girl.

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Don't envy the harvest of the rich. Envy their planting.

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

When all of earth turns against you, all of heaven turns toward you.

I half-punched a paparazzo once. I've hit a few people.

Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.

Equities will do well over time - you just have to avoid getting excited when other people are getting excited.