Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

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.

Power was my weakness and my temptation.

There are two kinds of writers

When we criticize people, their consciences console them. When we love them, their consciences indict them.

Find peace within your soul.

Probably any successful career has "X" number of breaks in it and maybe the difference between successful people and those who aren't superachievers is taking advantage of those breaks.

Persistence and resilience only come from having been given the chance to work though difficult problems.

Each and every animal on earth has as much right to be here as you and me

My love is bigger than a Cadillac, I try to show you, but you drive me back.

As for labeling someone a whistleblower, I think it does them - it does all of us - a disservice, because it "otherizes" us.

A cemetery saddens us because it is the only place of the world in which we do not meet our dead again.