I am an emptiness for Thee to fill; my soul a cavern for Thy sea

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.

I had to make a choice, either take care of my family and become a good son, or be a bad son and start working towards constructing a world of harmony and peace. I chose the later.

On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfaction.

What a terrible round. I only hit two good balls all day and that was when I stepped on a rake in a bunker.

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

And though the years before I die Stretch out interminably, I Shall only count my life in truth As that brief hour of happy youth.

I think that's why we're always so fascinated with criminal stories because there but for the grace of God it could be us.

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.

The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.

There's a lot that you can do in television that you can't do with a film, theoretically. At the time, the only possibility was to do a movie.

If there was no other motive in view [except] to have the privilege of reading over our journals and for our children to read, it would pay for the time spent in writing it.