A compliment is a gift not to be thrown away carelessly unless you want to hurt the giver.

Those who mistake their good luck for their merit are inevitably bound for disaster.

The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.

Happiness and unhappiness differ as a bucket hammered from gold differs from one pressed in tin ... Each carries the same water.

Divine grace was never slow.

To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture.

Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?

About 40 percent of my time is spent on social issues and building new organizations, more for the benefit of the climate or health issues.

I'm not just a politician, I'm a guy who has a real deep, substantive, commitment to education.

To me, White Boy Shuffle is sort of like Catcher in the Rye, the story is so universal.