We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack

Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.

We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

There is a transcendent power in example.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

Silence is like nightfall. Objects are lost in it insensibly.

The chains which cramp us most are those which weigh on us least.

The mind wears the colors of the soul, as a valet those of his master.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Strength alone knows conflict, weakness is born vanquished.

Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.

What Reagan ushered in was a skepticism toward government solutions to every problem. I don't think that has changed

The claws of Truth were painful. The lies tore away like scabs, and John bled there for hours, stifling his cries of pain in the sleeve of his overcoat - the overcoat he'd received from his father.

What India needs most is a unified food law.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.

O woman shapely as a swan.

Republicans are now trying to stop Donald Trump. And there was much more ferocious and widespread criticism from Republicans of Trump this time around.

Prayer is an expression of who we are...We are a living incompleteness. We are a gap, an emptiness that calls for fulfillment.

...reality, the name we give to the common experience.

Political elections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste.