What can money do to console a man with a headache?

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.

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.

I hated the distance between us. It left me unsettled, unbalanced. Like the good parts of myself were fading.

No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.

I draw the line at letting people into my songwriting cave. To me, that's where the alchemy happens and where the mystery is.

Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right.

I really didn't know much about the Libertarians. I knew they were for less government and more individual freedom. I liked that.

I took piano and drum lessons when I was young, and took a lot of choir classes in high school. Beyond that I just play by ear and learn as I go.

You can't make everybody love what you do, but you can know how great you feel doing it.

I think sometimes you don't understand how to convey an idea, depending on the moment you're living in.

Success is a nice thing because it always means you've taken a step forward and it gives you a sense of pride, which in turn gives you confidence and experience-a positive circle, so to speak.