It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal.

The day is ours, and what the day has shown.

The future belongs to those who never forget to think.

All the happiness, health, and abundance you experience in life comes directly from your ability to love and be loved. This ability is innate, not acquired.

If being alive is not a virtue, then there is little virtue in virtue.

I want to use my position of leadership to help move along at a faster pace what I believe and know the Obama administration wants to do around the urgency of climate change.

History is not fable agreed upon, but truth disagreed upon.

I don't know who Maxime thinks she's kidding. If Hagrid's half-giant, she definitely is. Big bones... the only thing that's got bigger bones than her is a dinosaur.

Nothing is ever finished. It's a funny thing. I actually think that's really the more natural way of stories or songs.

We turn to quantities when we can't compare the qualities of things.

I've learned to take things a little more easily, to be a little more forgiving of myself.

The reason we are at the ballpark is to win that day's game, and we don't need to be concerned with anything else during the time we are in uniform. It makes things a lot simpler, a lot easier.