there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.

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.

God is the One who is with us when we have to do something we don't think we are capable of doing.

Music isn't for the eyes, it's for the ears

[On being a judge for the 1986 Booker Prize:] I got to the point where I couldn't read a laundry list without considering it for the Booker Prize.

In art school we're always taught that art is an end in itself - art for art's sake, expressing yourself, and that that's enough.

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission

When I go on vacation I just like to do nothing - just hang out at the beach, go eat the best restaurants, and do nothing.

Always be open to new beginnings. To the universe, every moment is the start of the next big thing in your life.

Searching for companies is like looking for grubs under rocks: if you turn over 10 rocks you'll likely find one grub; if you turn over 20 rocks you'll find two.

Abraham Lincoln, who said, A house divided... is a condominium. Never got a dinner!

Already the scent of victory is in the air.