Few delights can equal the presence of one whom we trust utterly.

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.

Every pain is repeated in other places and other lives, every joy is repeated in other places and other lives.

When we're doing our lessons, the teacher doesn't say, 'Ready, set, work,' They say, 'Ready, set, play,' and I always took that word seriously.

'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'.

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

They most the world enjoy who least admire.

The spiritual process has always been referred to as a journey - constant change.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.