No man can make haste to be rich without going against the will of God, in which case it is the one frightful thing to be successful.

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.

And because the world is too big and time is too short and you only have one life to live, read!

Some mistakes... just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let that night be the thing that defines you.

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant.

I just want to feel everything.

The modern banking system manufactures money out of nothing. The process is perhaps the most astounding piece of sleight-of-hand that was ever invented.

I am not interested in what today's mathematicians find interesting.

Sometimes you have to be somebody you're not.

As a kid, I thought John Denver was the perfect Prince Charming.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.