Sincerity is the way to heaven.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to benevolence

The disease of men is that they neglect their own fields and go to weed the fields of others.

To act without clear understanding, to form habits without investigation, to follow a path all one's life without knowing where it really leads; such is the behavior of the multitude.

There is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.

The best things in life come in threes, like friends, dreams, and memories.

People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.

He who loves others is constantly loved by them. He who respects others is constantly respected by them.

There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.

If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you every moment becomes a prayer.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

Perfect self-expression will never be labor, but of such absorbing interest that it will seem almost like play.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.

There's a fine line between information and propaganda.

I don't know what is happening to people but they are not as tough as they used to be.

I do not know, sir, that the fellow is an infidel; but if he be an infidel, he is an infidel as a dog is an infidel; that is to say, he has never thought upon the subject.

Even the God of Calvin never judged anyone as harshly as married couples judge each other.