Love makes everything lovely; hate concentrates itself on the one thing hated.

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.

Although I was so big, and so rough in many ways, loved hunting, fighting, horseback riding, I loved the piano above everything else...The mountain man's obsession is to get a glimpse of the sea.

I'm not rebellious, but I am very strong-willed. I know what I believe in, and I know what I think is right.

Wisdom doesn't teach fools for long.

It is a little surprising given the strength of the economy that there is a perception - at least among some of the public - that the economy is not very good.

Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.

That drew a mocking laugh from Lillian. “Really, someone should tell St. Vincent that he’s a living cliché. He has become the embodiment of everything they say about reformed rakes.

There is no single way to educate.

The bigger your mission becomes, the greater inspiration you will be given.

When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man.

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently - especially with me.