Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the gratification of receiving them.

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

Despair is deadly sin, but worse, it is mortal folly.

Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.

The mountains of today are the molehills of tomorrow.

There is no one who cannot be hated, against whatever odds. Nor anyone who cannot be loved, against all reason.

I have always known that the best of the Saracens could out-Christian many of us Christians.

All the things of the wild have their proper uses. Only misuse makes them evil.

as roads go, the road home is as good as any.

Too much trust is folly, in an imperfect world.

Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Is killing a known terrorist wrong? I ask this, did the terrorist allow any of his victims quarter? No, then allow him no quarter, and hoist the black flag.

He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge.

The saying "the cherry on top" is only a good metaphor if the person listening or reading actually likes cherries on top of their ice cream.

We're making progress. Our military is assisting in Iraq. And we're hoping that within the year we'll be able to push ISIS out of Iraq and then, you know, really squeeze them in Syria.

Robert Kennedy identified with people, not data, or institutions, or theories. Poverty was a specific black face for him, not a manila folder full of statistics.

Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.

I'm excited to doing more scoring work in the future.

I pulled the Johnny character from the Jamaican Johnny Too Bad thing.

Goodbye, kind year, we walk no more together. But here in quiet happiness we part.