There's something so beautiful in coming on one's very inmost thoughts in another. In one way it is one of the greatest pleasures one has.

I think if I were dying and I heard of an act of injustice, it would start me up to a moment's life again.

There was never a great man who had not a great mother.

My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad.

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Everything has two sides - the outside that is ridiculous, and the inside that is solemn.

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Love, smoke and a cough cannot long be hid!

The secret of success is concentration ... Taste everything a little, look at everything a little; but live for one thing.

Ones real deathless wealth is all the beautiful souls one has seen and spiritually touched.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

He wants to enslave you.''I shudder at the thought of being free.

My dad, who plays guitar and piano and was in cover bands, along with my older brother, Matt, taught me guitar and stuff. I started writing acoustic songs and playing by myself in 7th grade.

In general, with things unpleasant, the rule is: The sooner you hit bottom, the faster you surface.

I love those who can smile in trouble.

People like to help, providing they can do it reasonably easily

Experience teaches that a strong memory is generally joined to a weak judgment.

I am not a political figure, nor do I want to be one; but I come with my heart.

There can be no doubt that the practice of opening legislative sessions with prayer has become part of the fabric of our society.

One's intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.