I am one of those people who are blessed ... with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs doing I do it.

There are some people to whom muddled thinking and self-deception are the two most unforgivable crimes in the world.

There are, fortunately, very few people who can say that they have actually attended a murder.

Mourning is not forgetting. ... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust.

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a passion that explosion is apt to be more impressive than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.

The optimism of a healthy mind is indefatigable.

Waiting is one of the great arts.

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, Compassion, Art, Love. All of them are pointless. But, they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

Ah, sarcasm. The final refuge of the desperate.

After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off camera as well.

What does one plant who plants a tree? One plants the friend of sun and sky; One plants the flag of breezes free; The shaft of beauty towering high.

Great leaders love to see people grow. The day you are afraid of them being better than you is the day you fail as a leader.

But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow... Like a Coach and six - the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace.

Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.

True Christianity today is not different from primitive Christianity ... She remains what she has been since her foundation: always the same.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.