Not all of those to whom we do good love us, neither do all those to whom we do evil hate us.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

When orators and auditors have the same prejudices, those prejudices run a great risk of being made to stand for incontestable truths.

Solitude vivifies, isolation kills.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

Poetry is the exquisite expression of exquisite impressions.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

Nothing vivifies, and nothing kills, like the emotions.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.

There are people who laugh to show their fine teeth; and there are those who cry to show their good hearts.

What we think is life. What we do just defines it.

May the nights always be aglowwith the bliss of the daywith unharmed hands and feetand kissed cheeks.

Men, my brothers, men the workers, ever reaping something new.

Politicians pay more attention to interest groups than to the public interest.

Spiritual depression or unhappiness in the Christian life is very often due to our failure to realize the greatness of the gospel.

It's not what your parents give you. It's what you do with your own stuff.

I wish that author [ E. L. James] all the success in the world. It's just not for me.

The sinner's prayer has sent more people to Hell than all the bars in America.

Whoever alters a person's expectations changes his behavior.

I'm dancing tango, and I'm playing golf, and I'm quite active, you know, and for my age and everything, and what I've gone through, I'm very happy.