The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

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.

None of this is his fault, but here we sit in the police station.

It's possible to love without sacrificing-but who would notice? For love is demonstrated only through sacrifice-without it, love is invisible.

I have no concern for the common man except that he should not be so common.

When a person lives a very happy life they become beautiful.

We want them [senators] to be themselves, and I told them, be yourselves and say what you want to say. Don't worry about me.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

My fans are so funny, they make me laugh so much. I've got some really, really, funny, clever fans.

Clothing is art. It's an expression of how you feel. I think that it's not so much a question of a certain style or designer, but of finding the type of clothing that works well for you.

You can't shrink your way to greatness!

It's not so much that I'm an atheist so much as the sneaking suspicion that I myself may be god