There are as many kinds of anger as there are of the sunsets with which they ought to end.

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.

Concentrate more on your achievements than your failures. Learn to take the failures as opportunities to rectify your errors.

[This philosophy] … is antagonistic to minds perverted and crippled by a superhuman

God, Lincoln believed, is seen more clearly events that in nature, though He maybe seen there also. It is a majestic thing, thought Lincoln, for a person to be RESPONSIBLE.

O me, this place is hell.

But Steven Bochco was smart; he knew that viewers were smart.

I've been writing full-time since I was 23.

Women are sort of like motorcycle gangs with me. They get really shy and polite. I don't know why.

Try as we may to make a silence, we cannot.

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

I believe most Americans want their next President to remind them of the guy they work with, not the guy who laid them off.