It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

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.

Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair.

Music repairs us when it breaks the silence.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

Right now, Vee was the only person I could count on. She could be obnoxious,annoying, and lazy, but she never lied to me.

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape.

But when the strong were too weak to hurt the weak, the weak had to be strong enough to leave.

There are a lot more TV sets in use on Monday night than on Sunday afternoon.

I' ve got quite narrow feet and they are size 12. I would sometimes get blisters when I was younger but fortunately I don t have much trouble with my feet nowadays.

No matter what obeisance the state may demand, we who serve the King are free indeed.

I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.