Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

I've known him since dirt was new, Papaw laughed. We go way back...Dawg Papaw, that's a long time! Mark exclaimed.

We have to acknowledge the progress we made, but understand that we still have a long way to go. That things are better, but still not good enough.

It [European Union] has kept the peace in Europe. Countries used to fight and now they talk. We should be attached to that.

People think being in your seventies means sitting around in a chair with a blanket over your legs, drooling.

When you hear music, after it's over, it's gone, in the air. You can never capture it again.

Poets wish to profit or to please.

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Learning is not the accumulation of knowledge. Learning is movement from moment to moment.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

In this world, goodness is destined to be defeated.