My prayers, my God, flow from what I am not; I think thy answers make me what I am.

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.

We must not think of the things we could do with, but only of the things that we can't do without.

If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier

I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

Patients have the right to help themselves.

It is not possible . . . to concentrate enough military planes with military loads over a modern city to destroy that city.

More generally, people who lived in a period when maternal, infant and childhood mortality were still high would have been tougher than most of us can imagine.

When Eudæmonidas heard a philosopher arguing that only a wise man can be a good general, "This is a wonderful speech," said he; "but he that saith it never heard the sound of trumpets.

God is always faithful to His promises, but He often surprises us in the way He fulfills them.

I actually don't think that I have a problem playing for managers. But history, people might think otherwise.