Anything big enough to occupy our minds is big enough to hang a prayer on.

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.

You can't compare and rank heartache. Pain is pain is pain. There is no precise measurement. No quarter cup.

The brain is not and cannot be the sole or complete organ of thought and feeling.

If haters or whatever want to find you - I mean, some of them are so tenacious. You want to hire them to work for you. Theyre very, very savvy in terms of how they find you and get to you.

[Sundance] still feels like an incredible place for championing emerging voices and art.

The victory's in believing.

One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying.

Envy lies between two beings equal in nature though unequal in circumstances.

Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular.

I wish I could sing or play an instrument.

Certain directors are known for a certain kind of beauty; it becomes their signature.