But it is not the rich man only who is under the dominion of things; they too are slaves who, having no money, are unhappy from the lack of it.

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.

But if I had to pick another person for her, I'd have to say you, Jess, since I hold you in such high regard. Yes, you would be a good match, but I am the lucky one this time! - Bryan Gifford

A group of owls is called a parliament, wisdom, or study.

Most people do not want to follow a leader, they want to command the leading of a servant.

Even in the middle of a noisy mass of students, one girl’s laugh grabbed my attention.

People can get crazier as they get older. I can just be weird whenever I want, and there's the freedom of not caring what people think.

In the case of pilots, it is a little touch of madness that drive us to go beyond all known bounds. Any search into the unknown is an incomparable exploitation of oneself.

I thought I wanted to be a journalist or a novelist.

Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood.

Critics of Donald Trump take him literally, but not seriously. His supporters take him seriously, but not literally.

[On old age:] You wake up one morning and you got it.