Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.

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.

Pretend to be great

Try to study yourself and what is inside you, as the entire world lies in you.

It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

But if you don't enjoy doing something, you'll be miserable no matter how much money you make.

Im very passionate about animals.

Before things are written down they don't exist in quite the same way. The act of fixing them in words gives them a kind of currency that can be traded.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

Before you can follow your own drummer, you have to hear the drummer.

If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.