He was an author whose works were so well known as to be almost confidential.

Associate with well-mannered persons and your manners will improve. Run around with decent folk and your own decent instincts will be strengthened.

Now I just act like I don't remember

Break every chain of mediocrity that confines you. You may have begun at a level below average, but dare to leave that side and paddle your steps to cross the river with honours.

Be intelligent, but know it is better to be kind than smart.

He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

I've been singing my whole life, since I was a kid; but never formally as a career. I did it in plays when I was younger, and I sang all styles of music: everything from Italian opera to blues.

If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. If you look at God you'll be at rest.

it would be lovely to sleep in a wild cherry-tree all white with bloom in the moonshine

I love where I'm from. I don't live there because of the circumstances, but all my family is there. It's what's inside, it's not what's outside that determines the culture and the feeling.

Our Lord approved neither idol worship or idle worship but ideal worship in Spirit and truth.