The part of the philanthropist is indeed a dangerous one; and the man who would do his neighbour good must first study how not to do him evil, and must begin by pulling the beam out of his own eye.

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.

Life can be how you choose or are governed by fate.

We had better share our bewilderments. By hiding them from each other we should not hide them from ourselves.

The older I get, the more fun it is to write young people. It's just a holiday from what is becoming old age, really.

Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions

I hate fights. I try to talk people out of fighting if I can and if they start I run away.

But I always see myself as the filmmaker. I wonder if everybody else sees me more as an actor.

Man must be associated with his fellows.

Anger, though, is too fierce a flame to last for long, and when it burned out, I was left numb and wondering.

The commercial music video industry is very hard to break into, and until you break in, that first job is the hardest thing in the world to get.

I always have faith that good things will happen regardless.