In politics, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but interests.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

...remember that what has once been done may be done again.

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

Knowledge is a light burden. Ignorance...a heavy bliss.

Consider the value of doing what you love and being paid for it! This is truly a golfer’s dream.

The only prerequisites to leadership are that you remain positive, calm, and open-minded.

I'm obsessed with the idea of social TV.

Sickness is the first warning that we have made a wrong judgement. A healthy person is never unhappy.

Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded.

I am by temperament an optimist, and I thought from the beginning that there was much to be written about suicide that was strangely heartening.

Let's use that to make as interesting and different and unique a story as possible and not just stay with the same thing.' And this movie is certainly the embodiment of that.

One of the worst mistakes anybody can make is to bet against Americans.

We are not created for any grander purpose than the ants that are there or the flies that are hovering around us or the mosquitoes that are sucking our blood.