I wondered over again for the hundredth time what could be the principle which, in the wildest, most lawless, fantastically chaotic, apparently capricious work of Nature, always kept it beautiful.

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.

She looked at her best friend as he unraveled the tightly wound cord from his heart and told her what she had been hoping to hear." from the upcoming The Witch of Belle Fleur

No, my life is not this precipitous hourthrough which you see me passing at a run.

She looked at him, his black, depthless eyes like boiling wells of oil.

One sip of this will bathe the drooping spirits in delight, beyond the bliss of dreams.

Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

The Republican Party: a few million gun-toting, Armageddon-ready Baptists.

It was a mixed marriage. I'm human, and he was a Klingon.

I have to admit that I'm kind of afraid of Islam.

Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.

There's a big difference between being able to explain religion intellectually and transforming that knowledge into spiritual experience.