To be kind neither hurts nor compromises.

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.

Rosies mother was a highly strung bundle of barely thought-through prejudices, worries and feuds.

When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.

Holy humility confounds pride and all the men of this world and all things that are in the world.

I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.

Everything around me inspires and influences me. Mainly love - falling in it, losing it, loving it and hating it.

Right now someone out there is struggling and starting to panic because they can't get out of a tempurpedic bed.

I am the shortest and least funny person in my family.

You should never, ever, let anyone tell you you're not good enough. You have a choice whether to meet others expectations of you, or strive to meet your own.

If you don't believe in yourself...nobo dy else will.

The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.