The best preparation for the future is the present well seen to, and the last duty done.

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.

God's grace is all I need.

A true DreamChaser knows how to sacrifice beyond measure and live with the decision.

We must solve the problem in health care by curbing out-of-control costs that erode paychecks for working families and push quality coverage out of reach for millions of Americans.

Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another's money. Idiots!

Every start on an untrodden path is a venture which only in unusual circumstances looks sensible and likely to succeed.

A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament.

We begin to inhabit oppositional and rarely intersecting mental universes having to do with ideology and fact and non-fact and news and non-news.

The kind of eyes that jumped from a woman's dreams right into her morning and made trouble in the marriage bed.

Hold on to your dreams for they are, in a sense, the stuff of which reality is made. It is through our dreams that we maintain the possibility of a better, more meaningful life.

What I need is to believe in myself again — for my faith has been greatly undermined; it seems to me my role is over.