Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

Conventionality is not morality.

Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.

If he does go, the change will be doleful. Suppose he should be absent spring, summer, and autumn: how joyless sunshine and fine days will seem!

I would always rather be happy than dignified.

It is a pity that doing one's best does not always answer.

It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you.

And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame.

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear.

You are human and fallible.

You don’t have to be a rich person to have a great life. You have to be a person of value to enjoy the beauty of life.

Home isn't where you're from, it's where you find light when all grows dark.

Gratitude is nutrition for a living relationship.

The traditional Christian attitude toward human personality was that human nature was essentially good and that it was formed and modified by social pressures and training.

I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate.

Ending mass surveillance of private phone calls under the Patriot Act is a historic victory for the rights of every citizen. Yet while we have reformed this one program, many others remain.

I always think that the most interesting characters are those that are trying to cover something or those that have some sense of bravado or composure.

As the best wine doth make the sharpest vinegar, so the deepest love turns to the deadliest hate.

There are no completely good or bad people. Everybody makes mistakes, or bad choices. It's how we live with them that make us the people we are.

You've got a lot of time for abstract thought when you've got your hand stuck up a dead badger.