There is a great deal of human nature in man.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

Follow your dreams, not the crowd.

I see now the virtue in madness, for this country knows no law nor any boundary. I pity the poor shades confined to the Euclidean prison that is sanity

Money can't buy love, but money can reprove one's care, especially when there is little to give in its efforts to help.

Study how a society uses its land, and you can come to pretty reliable conclusions as to what its future will be.

I want to remind all Africans, please come to Africa. It’s right across the water. Come look at yourselves. Momma is waiting.

You might be a redneck if you've ever worn a dress that is strapless with a bra that isn't.

I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

We are keen to stress that a strong euro zone is good for a strong United Kingdom. It's not for us to write the changes that the euro zone needs to embark on.

My dad says he likes to bask in my glow.