For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds.

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.

Anger kills logical thinking and logical thinking kills anger....the choice is yours

When undesirable and ugly addendum enters a man's life history, it become acceptable as part of the process of growing up.

There's a very fine line between one person's reality and another person's fantasy.

I know when things feel a little, like, intrusive and when they don't. I don't have a lot to hide. But I do sometimes think, don't share everything.

How can you lose when you're doing you?

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.

I was well known to African Americans before Bill Clinton discovered me. He was like Christopher Columbus riding up on something he didn't understand.

Syria is ready to cooperate and coordinate all efforts, whether regional or international, to combat terrorism

Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems require collective solutions.