The love of our neighbor is the only door out of the dungeon of self.

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.

The call of God is not just for a select few but for everyone. Whether I hear God's call or not depends on the condition of my ears, and exactly what I hear depends upon my spiritual attitude.

I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.

Woman is the lesser man, and all thy passions, match'd with mine, Are as moonlight unto sunlight, and as water unto wine.

I absolutely admit I had him in the handcuffs so he wouldn't go anywhere while I checked the computer... I certainly wasn't going to kill him. That's hardly going to do my career any good, is it?

There is a value to moving more slowly through a story.

No matter how many luxuries you get, something will be missing. No matter how carefully you choose, you'll never be totally happy.

Orthodoxy: That peculiar condition where the patient can neither eliminate an old idea nor absorb a new one.

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

Oh these foolish men! They could not create so much as a worm, but they create gods by the dozens.

The race cannot succeed, nor build strong citizens, until we have a race of women competent to do more than bear a brood of negative men.