God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.

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.

Loving you is loosing my soul, I was in a lost battle, Death at my door, A dog in a backyard feels for my pain, Beer in a broken bottle wet paint and rain.

Political satire became obsolete when they awarded Henry Kissinger the Nobel Peace Prize.

Wisdom is like a goatskin bag; every man carries his own.

Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.

Every time we say we believe in the Holy Spirit, we mean we believe that there is a living God able and willing to enter human personality and change it.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

Nothing can intimidate me. I just go out and destruct and destroy.

The author is the successor of the saint, everyone respects the author.

What we once used as weapons of war, we now use as weapons against fish.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.