There is no courage but in innocence; no constancy but in an honest cause.

Pity's akin to love; and every thought Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.

When guilt is in its blush of infancy, it trembles in a tenderness of shame; and the first eye that pierces through the veil that hides the secret brings it to the face

Distress is virtue's opportunity: we only live to teach us how to die.

The reconciling grave swallows distinction first, that made us foes; there all lie down in peace together.

Pity is akin to love.

Lying's a certain mark of cowardice.

An oath is a recognizance to heaven, binding us over in the courts above to plead to the indictment of our crimes.

Words may be counterfeit, false coined, and current only from the tongue, without the mind; but passion is in the soul, and always speaks the heart.

Continue to breathe, peaceful and easy. Light in, light out, love in, loveout. Rest in your feelings of well-being.

Our Congressmen are the finest body of men money can buy.

the language of truth is too simple for inexperienced ears.

Very few people do covers of my tunes.

Oh great, socks. You know I'm dying for your sins right? Yeah, but thanks for the socks! They'll go great with my sandals. What am I, German?

The writer must not invent. The legend on the license must read: NONE OF THIS WAS MADE UP.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

BLASPHEMOUS REVERENCE. Acting on the knowledge that the most efficacious form or devotion to the Divine Wow is tinctured with playful or mischievous behavior that prevents the buildup of fanaticism.