Let there be spaces in your togetherness.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

Marge, you're as beautiful as Princess Leia and as smart as Yoda.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

A life not lived for others is not a life.

I'm a believer. I don't go to church. I don't belong to any particular religion, but I do believe in God. I couldn't write what I write about and be creative without a certain form of belief.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Each song is a child I nourish and give my love to. But even if you have never written a song, your life is a song. How can it not be?

Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.

There is little success where there is little laughter.

Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men.

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

I desire to live in peace and to continue the life I have begun under the motto 'to live well you must live unseen'

Patriots always talk of dying for their country but never of killing for their country.

The purpose of government is to enable the people of a nation to live in safety and happiness. Government exists for the interests of the governed, not for the governors.