A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.

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.

His leaving had been like snipping off the end of a rope - leaving two unraveling strands.

Little did the old man know how much God liked to talk to His children, how He longed to listen to them.

Even if God had created us, He would never have admitted it.

I had an idea and I wanted just to make it work. And I am never, ever secure on the set that what I am doing is going to translate to the screen. It never changes.

Give the vote to the people who have no property, and they will sell them to the rich, who will be able to buy them.

Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.

I think my comedic style is at once bashful and explosive. It's a little bit perverted, and a little bit ladylike and old-fashioned, which is a great mix. Sort of tangy.

It's difficult to paint every day, and people who say they do, probably don't; it's a very demanding thing.

The government does not and cannot create jobs. Only entrepreneurs do.

Anger is a wound gone mad.