I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

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.

The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands.

[Magnus] held on to the boy, newborn in grave dirt and blood, and he wished that he had found him dead.

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

The Internet is changing what entertainment and sports is. It's not just a few people authoring an experience for others. It's really growing out of what everybody does.

My mantra has always been to have zero regrets in life. Everything I do at one speed, I go all-out.

Take a quart of nature, boil it down to a pint, and the residue is art.

A role model is an imperfect person, not a perfect person, because that's who we are as real people.

Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.

It's not intentions that matter. It's actions. We are what we do and say, not what we intend to.

Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.