Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.

The pen is the lever that moves the world.

A mother is a bank where I deposit all my worries and hurts

I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world-a Bible illustrated.

I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work.

God puts his ear so closely down to your lips that he can hear your faintest whisper.

In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.

Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed.

One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.

What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After a while they will be thrown on society nervous, exhausted imbeciles.

By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach.

Leaders find something to die for, not something to live on. If you haven't found something to die for yet, you can't lead.

But so often, before words can rise to the mind to imply the ineffable, the ineffable has effed off.

When a photo of a person looks deep into your spirit and tells you thousand stories….. Stories from your past even before you existed, then the photo is way above any description.

There's definitely an old school element to my music, but I also think it's modern.

My pals, such as they are, in Hollywood, ask me why I love to travel to D.C. so much, why it's a vacation destination for me. I say, 'Because I sometimes have perfect days there.'

I must apologize for calling so late," said he, "and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.

Never did a great man hate good wine.

If you've ever felt oppressed on any level, there's something from 'The Wire' that you can take and identify with.

You've got to watch your back. We are targets as basketball payers.

Well, I'm from Indiana. So to me when I was a little kid growing up, Cincinnati was the glamorous New York of it all.