Evil often triumphs, but never conquers.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

When I quote Scripture, I know I am quoting the very Word of God.

Shake off this downy sleep, death’s counterfeit, And look on death itself!

I don't know notes or octaves or the difference between sharp and flat, but I know music makes everything more.

I read poetry every day. I love the boiled down essence of poetry. I look for poetry in prose. In a way that evocative.

Sometimes it is the destinations out of reach that create the circumstances God uses to remind that we are never out of his reach.

I don't see myself as beautiful, because I can see a lot of flaws.

Donald Trump is like Hillary Clinton said, a man you can bait with a tweet is not a man you can trust with nuclear weapons. You can't do it.

So hey, once Joshua heals your brother, you want to go do something, get some pomegranate juice, a falafel,or get married or something?

I'm an actor, that's my contribution.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.