It's no use crying over spilt summits.
We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.
Conscientious men are, almost everywhere, less encouraged than tolerated.
Let us pray! God is just, he tries us; God is pitiful, he will comfort us; let us pray!
The habit of prayer communicates a penetrating sweetness to the glance, the voice, the smile, the tears,--to all one says, or does, or writes.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.
Love others as you would love yourself, judge others as you would judge yourself, cherish others as you would cherish yourself. When you wish for others as you wish for yourself and when you protect others as you would protect yourself, that's when you can say it's true love.
I do have a romantic interest in outlasting everybody else. There's a sort of sad machismo to singer-songwriters, I think.
Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes.
Our nearly century-long experiment in banning marijuana has failed as abysmally as Prohibition did. . . In contrast, legalizing and taxing marijuana would bring in substantial sums that could be used to pay for schools, libraries or early childhood education.