There is an aching that is worse than any pain.

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 place in her, though, where her tears should have come from, was rough and dry. No, she didn't find any tears in herself to cry for the storyteller.The storyteller didn't exist anymore.

I feel like I should love them right away. But how do you do that? You can't make yourself love someone, can you?

Making a martial arts film in English to me is the same as John Wayne speaking Chinese in a western.

The crowd think that Todd handled the ball...they must have seen something that nobody else did.

Racism is exclusion, that's why I make fun of everybody.

But now the shots began—not many, but one shot is a fusillade if there have been no shots before.

A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.

Why is it so easy to acquire the solutions of past problems and so difficult to solve current ones

On a charcoal kiln a vine keeps climbing, while being burned to death.

I told her they must all be sold out.