Lenity is a part of justice; but she must not speak too loud for fear of waking justice.

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

All the great feelings like goodness, love or compassion eliminate the gravity and thus the wingless man rises like a bird.

Well-adjusted means you can make the same mistakes over and over again and keep smiling.

You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

Though you should not fear failure, you should do your very best to avoid it.

The United States is not so strong, the final triumph of the democratic ideal is not so inevitable that we can ignore what the world thinks of us or our record.

Do not be afraid, for I am with you. Do not turn away, for I am your God. I have strengthened you, and I have assisted you, and the right hand of my just one has upheld you.

Love, like alcoholism, comes to a point of no return.

I grew up in church. My mom's a minister, and my grandmother was an ordained minister. I was always very mindful of the presence of a greater being I call God.

If you became a comedian in the '80s, you had to work the circuit and make people laugh. Canned laughter is cheating.

I wish I knew what I know now before.