No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

I believe today that my conduct is in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.

I just want to retire before I go senile because if I don't retire before I go senile, then I'll do more damage than good at that point.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.

Freedom is from within.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Boards don't hit back.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Talk low, talk slow and don't say too much.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.