Somehow, I can't say how, it tells me that all is right; that it is coming to swallow up all cries.

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.

Enjoy the beauty of simplicity and slowness of life, let go of urgency, stress, and anxiety of life.

Every honest good deed comes with a positive feeling to do more good deeds.

I am a person of faith who believes deeply in the right to exercise religious beliefs.

Not only our moral life, but even our use of theoretical reason - on which we rely in rationally inquiring into nature - presupposes that we are free.

It takes a lot of people hours to make music because they focus so much on one thing. I just do it, and I make something you can just vibe to.

Any opinion writer worth his salt would have rejected the quaint notion that certain eternally aggrieved identity groups have exclusive linguistic rights to words in the English language.

What kind of archaeologist carries a weapon?

Let us develop respect for all living things. Let us try to replace violence and intolerance with understanding and compassion. And love.

We cannot be born, and we cannot die. Like all energy, we can only change shapes and sizes and manifestations.

You can't do good work on a short-term contract. You need to be engaged over a period of time.