Where did you get your eyes so blue? Out of the sky as I came through.

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.

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

In an endless silence even screams sound silent.

Jesus changes our history from a random series of sad incidents and accidents into a constant opportunity for a change of heart.

Don’t make me Alice-nap you, Alice. Because you know I can carry you.

No one's serious at seventeen.

Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.

The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were.

Filling all the way to the brim is not as good as halting in time.

First we shape our tools, thereafter they shape us

The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.