As many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.

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.

Old man with a young mind is much younger than the young man with an old mind!

So... Stop shaking my heart like this.

She knows she is in Chicago. But she does not yet realize that she is in Illinois.

Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.

I certainly want to establish myself as an actor in my own right, rather than being just the actor who plays Harry Potter.

A Nuns Life: Chastity, poverty, and obedience. Wait, chastity?" BUMPER STICKER

When I was in fourth grade, a novelist came to talk to my English class. She told us that being an author meant sitting at the kitchen table in pajamas, drinking tea with the dogs at your feet.

having people talk about you is an indication of how much more exciting your life is than theirs.

If I had a dollar for every time I said that, I'd be making money in a very weird way.

Doing for others may be the only way to create lasting well-being.