Alas! how easily things go wrong!

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.

That's how it is with legends. The greater they sound, the more must've got left out.

If I'm not touring I'd just be at home, just driving - I'm kind of at a loss for how that stuff works.

Somebody told me I should try writing. Actually, a lot of people tried to get me to try writing, long before I thought I was 'the writing type'.

My mom was a social worker. I had a pretty good idea of what the authorities can do when a parent's not around.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

Do not forget this: the Lord never wearies of forgiving! We are the ones who weary of asking for forgiveness.

If you actually just treat people as if they're already in the movement, they're already alongside this movement, and just let them enter the conversation midstream, it's actually more effective.

The media can't take Trump out, and that scares the heck out of everybody, particularly in the Republican side.

One way to compensate for a tiny brain is to pretend to be dead.

We should exterminate all rational thought.