I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

If "ifs" and "ands" were pots and pans, there'd be no work for tinkers' hands

Friendship is like a glass ornament, once it is broken it can rarely be put back together exactly the same way.

All we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.

I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Those clouds are angels' robes.

The most wonderful and the strongest things in the world, you know, are just the things which no one can see.

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Beauty is God's handwriting — a wayside sacrament; welcome it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower, and thank for it Him.

We fail to often realize that every man has an innate worth.

Being ambivalent doesn't mean that you're a relevatist, that anything goes; it just means that you show the complexity of life. Life is always complex.

I don't want to get into an insult fight with Donald Trump.

his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

Tough break today. Looks like I gotta go back and rememorize a couple hundred pages of the usga rules book!

Money can't buy happiness, but it does quiet the nerves.

I don't want to be on the phone talking numbers and budget. I want to be creating a world.

If you fell head first into a pigsty, you'd try to convince everybody you did it on purpose.

I think that Congress's ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.