God's finger can touch nothing but to mold it into loveliness.

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.

Why... is human desire so unsatisfying?

What quantum physics teaches us is that everything we thought was physical is not physical.

The harder we work now, the easier it will be later.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Use anger to emotionalize whatever thing you intend to do in life - being a painter, a poet or a photographer

I'm not generally a big solo guy, because I'm not into showing off that way.

LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

Growing up in the Bay Area, I played early on with these quartet groups who set guidelines for me. I remember the guys would all have the same clothes and shoes, like these uniforms. I was in awe.

When the audience isn't laughing, that doesn't mean that they're not fascinated.

To have the opportunity to complete the slam at the Open at St Andrews, the home of golf, is something I will never ever forget.