I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from simply knowing that such a creature was in 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.

Invest in friendships but be aware of those who only love your public success for personal gain. People who really love you cover your private failures!

The only reason why our minds are controlled is due to the fact that we don't make the conscious effort to control what goes in them.

Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart.

The average man's opinions are much less foolish than they would be if he thought for himself.

The Unexpected always comes at the most awkward times.

When one starts from a portrait and seeks by successive eliminations to find pure form... one inevitably ends up with an egg.

I make music with no boundaries.

I'm famous now. But now that I've got fame and some of the other things I thought would make me happy - it ain't worked

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge.