To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth.

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.

Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in.

...[T]he really important thing is not to live, but to live well... [a]nd to live well means the same thing as to live honourably or rightly...

You're still alive. That means you're winning.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

My first rule - the golden rule - ensures that over the economic cycle the Government will borrow only to invest, and that current spending will be met from taxation.

Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.

Stop eating before you're full.

Television and film are such streamlined story mediums. You can't really meander about, whereas a novel is an interior experience.