It's always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it's going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary.

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.

Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.

Life calls the tune, we dance.

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.

Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of a better life.

Beginnings are always messy.

I wanted someone to want me in all ways and someone who I wanted the same in return, And I'd found him.

Mutual respect! That's what it takes to be friends.

... and it is probably that there is some secret here which remains to be discovered.

I'm not romanticizing black people, because we've got gangsters like everybody else.

Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.

If a child is poor in math but good at tennis, most people would hire a math tutor. I would rather hire a tennis coach.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

There are many roads to prosperity, but one must be taken. Inaction leads nowhere.

This issue is not economic but political. I hope that all market participants interested in maintaining stable and reasonable world energy prices will finally make the right decision.

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the "state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.