Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!

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.

He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began.

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

Dating and getting attention from boys was something that came later to me.

A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.

There is no question there are differences between male and female brains. They are called sexual dimorphisms and you can point to different anatomical structures.

I think you have to be very careful with effects that they don't overpower the story with the visual element.

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

Aggle flabble kabble . . . snurp?

We need to see ourselves as basic miracles.

Does college pay? They do if you are a good open-field runner.