We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.

If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

Everything isn’t political.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child’s eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.

Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… well, I have others.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

The worst men often give the best advice.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute.

People who make history know nothing about history. You can see that in the sort of history they make.

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

I actually don’t want a throne at all, because I don’t view myself as a queen; I view myself as one of my fans.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

Let us fill our hearts with our own compassion – towards ourselves and towards all living beings.

Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

Really I don’t like human nature unless all candied over with art.

The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live.

A trifle consoles us, for a trifle distresses us.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

People who don’t know the true character of God – who don’t believe He is merciful, gracious and slow to anger – can never have a close, personal, intimate relationship with Him.

Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

My wife and I are very affectionate.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

If my world were to cave in tomorrow, I would look back on all the pleasures, excitements and worthwhilenesses I have been lucky enough to have had. Not the sadness, not my miscarriages or my father leaving home, but the joy of everything else. It will have been enough.

There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near.

There is something about building up a comradeship – that I still believe is the greatest of all feats – and sharing in the dangers with your company of peers. It’s the intense effort, the giving of everything you’ve got. It’s really a very pleasant sensation.

I felt I had to solve everyone’s problems.

Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an ardent believer in the free market.

We live in ugly times.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.

Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you’d see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Culture makes people understand each other better. And if they understand each other better in their soul, it is easier to overcome the economic and political barriers. But first they have to understand that their neighbour is, in the end, just like them, with the same problems, the same questions.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

There is not a liberal America and a conservative America – there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America – there’s the United States of America.

I always have an optimistic view, no matter what it is.