Love that has been given to you is too sacred a thing to be talked of to anyone ... except just to the person who is like part of you and who will feel it as you do.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

He who makes his needs known to God gains for immediate answer "the peace of God which passeth understanding, " and can wait God’s time for the rest.

There was no substitute for a post-coital cuddle.

The fact that social media has leveled the playing field doesn't offer you the right to disrespect the elderly

Pride and love can't live in the same heart

The more you try to crush your true nature, the more it will control you. Be what you are. No one who really loves you will stop.

Get up, dress up, and show up.

America has two national budgets, one official, one unofficial.

Sometimes, as I'm following a story thread to its ultimate conclusion, I find that I start swimming in deep water and need to run an idea by Steve [King].

Tony Blair has always said he will be judged by history. Now Alastair Campbell is history we await his judgment.

My parents were marvelously educated people.