Even for the dead I will not bind my soul to grief, death cannot long divide; for is it not as if the rose that climbed my garden wall had bloomed the other side?

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall.

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

How many lives we live in one, And how much less than one, in all.

My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

He who loves best his fellow-man, is loving God the holiest way he can.

Yea, when mortality dissolves, Shall I not meet thine hour unawed? My house eternal in the heavens Is lighted by the smile of God!

Nothing in this low and ruined world bears the meek impress of the Son of God so surely as forgiveness.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

Magic doesn’t work when you’re sad.

Military commanders do not want to be tried for war crimes, even if those crimes are committed online.

Those who work much do not work hard.

In America, we've got to get back to these base principles of what democracy is.

I believe if two people want to commit to each other, God bless 'em.

Here's the tragedy of the modern record business: It's radio. If you're not on radio, nobody really is going to hear you or see you or care about you.

I want people to understand that from the minute Lady Gaga arrived, she created a new set of rules: being different is good; embrace it.

A man can be so busy making a living that he forgets to make a life.

I'd love to do sitcoms. I think I'm pretty darn funny.