There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

My heart is, and always will be, yours.

It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do.

There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.

The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance.

Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken.

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

With all due respect, the Mona Lisa is overrated.

It's a huge responsibility to have influence and to steward it in a way that leads to God-honoring leadership.

Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.

Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis.

As you get older, it's always a process of self-love, learning how to really do that for yourself instead of trying to find it outside yourself.

The creature called man has a strange history. He is not of one piece, nor was he born of a single moment in time. His elementary substance is stardust almost as old as the universe.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

The difference between magic and miracles is this. Magic is when you use your mind to tell the Universe what you want. Miracles is when you ask the Universe what it wants and how you can serve it'

Willie Nelson's the one who told me the reason it costs so much to get divorced is because it's worth it.

Surround yourself with people who make you feel stupid.