Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

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.

Children are children.

Every line is the perfect length if you don't measure it.

I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.

I shall argue that strong men, conversely, know when to compromise and that all principles can be compromised to serve a greater principle.

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself.

I guess what we know about the Avengers is there's a reason why all of the heroes that we've been meeting, from Thor to Captain America - everybody - they need to work together.

I think Earl Scruggs playing propelled bluegrass and Bill Monroe's music to the level that - where we're all still talking about it.

I resolve not to drink liquids before donning the Bat-suit.

Dietrich would never do that