Never tell a child 'you have a soul.' Teach him, you are a soul; you have a body.

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.

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.

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.

At weddings old people poke me and say, "you're next, " so I started doing the same thing to them at funerals.

Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

I remember taking great pride in making Brad Pitt laugh. I always had a soft spot for him. He's such a sweet, sweet man.

The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies.

The only one interested in hearing your sad story is . . . you; and even you wish you didn't have to relive it again!

One way to express the spiritual crisis of our time is to say that most of us have an address but cannot be found there.

It was good, too, to remember how hard a lot of people had to work to keep a kingdom running well, and that it was simply good manners to let them know, from time to time, how valued they were.

Who can love the man he fears. or by who he thinks he is himself feared?

We walk from nowhere to nowhere, but at least during our journey we have time to think on how to be able to change this ambiguity!