What distressed me most - more even than my own folly - was the perplexing question, How can beauty and ugliness dwell so near?

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.

When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.

I don't believe in anything and that makes me stronger than you think

I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you're mine, I walk the line.

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.

Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

Plays, gentlemen, are to their authors what children are to women: they cost more pain than they give pleasure.

Every rule should be broken at least one time.

The science of morality is about maximizing psychological and social health. It's really no more inflammatory than that.

Time punishes us by taking everything, but it also saves us - by taking everything