Remember to be gentle with yourself and others. We are all children of chance and none can say why some fields will blossom while others lay brown beneath the August sun.

We’re conditioned to think that our lives revolve around great moments. But great moments often catch us unaware – beautifully wrapped in what others may consider a small one.

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.

Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.

Something precious is lost if we rush headlong into the details of life without pausing for a moment to pay homage to the mystery of life and the gift of another day.

Forgiveness allows us to live in the sunlight of the present, not the darkness of the past. Forgiveness alone, of all our human actions, opens up the world to the miracle of infinite possibility.

Our brightest dreams and our greatest fears are just over the horizon.

Do not fall prey to the false belief that mastery and domination are synonymous with manliness.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

Great joys make us love the world. Great sadnesses make us understand the world.

There's Only so much emotional super glue in a person's soul, that everything just stays broken.

Laire, get back here! You do not drink before we meet with our mortal enemy.

I traced the cord back to the wall, no wonder it was never plugged in at all.

I just want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress

When officers' actions violate their duty, justice should be served in accordance with our legal system.

No matter what other nations may say about the United States, immigration is still the sincerest form of flattery.

I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

No cradle for an emperor's child was ever prepared with so much magnificence as this world has been made for man. But it is only his cradle.

Error tills its own barren soil and buries itself in the ground, since ground and dust stand for nothingness.

I'm sure that those - well, I know for a fact that the prisoners, the political prisoners in the federal system, is asking [Barack Obama] for clemency or for some kind of release.