What we feel is as true a fact as what we think.

Only God can fully satisfy the hungry heart of man.

Friendship cannot become permanent unless it becomes spiritual. There must be fellowship in the deepest things of the soul, community in the highest thoughts, sympathy with the best endeavors.

At the heart of happiness lies peace. It is the last and the highest attainment of the soul.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first.

No friendship has done its work until it reaches the supremest satisfaction of spiritual communion.

The fear of God kills all other fears.

Friendship means to be a strong hand in the dark to another in the time of need.

We walk among worlds unrealized until we have learned the secret of love.

The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

It is the paradox of life that the way to miss pleasure is to seek it first. The very first condition of lasting happiness is that a life should be full of purpose aiming at something outside self.

True beauty lies in purity of the heart.

I do have a reason for my insanity. I fear regret.

As I always have with stand-up or anything, you kind of draw on what you're going through in your life.

We cannot change the way the world is, but by opening ourselves to the world as it is, we may find that gentleness, decency and bravery are available - not only to us, but to all human beings.

It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us.

Things are so beautiful and wonderful, you feel there must be another life where you will see more - hear more - and know more. All of it cannot die.

With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

You are stronger than me," Asa says. "And in bravery and strength, there is a kind of beauty.

Know the enemy, know yourself; your victory will never be endangered. Know the ground, know the weather; your victory will then be total.

We had our unhappy moments but they got channelled into the kind of sadness that was necessary for singing a song about going nowhere. So it worked out very well I think.