To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

We cannot get grace from gadgets.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not mean there is no truth in it.

You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.

Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch.

We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other.

The heavenly Father is a great Healer.

There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena

Yet the higher a man climbs the further he has to fall.

Everyone is dangerous in here, can’t you see that?” he warned.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

I'm not that old, and I haven't lived a life so far from the ordinary, really.

For athletes, the Olympics are the ultimate test of their worth.

Troubles never come singly.

Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

The mind is the most capricious of insects — flitting, fluttering.