You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Is it not meningitis?

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

If you do politics the right way, I believe, you can actually make people's lives better. And integrity is the minimum ante to get into the game.

The worst thing about having power over other people's lives is that you sometimes get things wrong.

Sometimes our loved one doesn't understand that you need them, it hurts but when they says they know you very well it hurts even more as you know its not true.

I've gotten like five laughs in movies, just off guy hugs.

Look at the aerospace industry as it was just after the Kennedy talk. We were hiring like crazy. We were trying to get people graduated from college. Hey, you got to go to the program. We need you.

If I know I'm going crazy, I must not be insane.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

I'm many things, most of 'em bad. But a man of political principles? No.

Geoff Muldaur was and is one of my musical heroes. When I listen to him sing and play, I can hear the coal mine, the cotton field, and last, but certainly foremost, the boy's boarding school.

Our human condition makes us tend to share only the best of ourselves, because we are always searching for love and approval