That fighting of a battle without belief is, I think, the sorriest task which ever falls to the lot of any man.

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who holds a low opinion of himself.

And of course I didn't know who would marry me now that I'd been where I had been. I didn't know at all.

It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents.

We dare them to apply a principle for 40 days to their kids. They don't have to be 40 consecutive days...Already people that even tested the book for us had amazing responses from their kids.

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise others.

Shall he who soars, inspired by loftier views, Life's little cares and little pains refuse? Shall he not rather feel a double share Of mortal woe, when doubly arm'd to bear?

I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

Remember the lessons of history - if we don't learn from history, we're bound to repeat it.

The facts of life are to the biographer what the text of a novel is to the critic.