Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
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.
We want our friend as a man of talent, less because he has talent than because he is our friend.
The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.
There is no religion of terrorism.
I've always told the truth. I think that's been part of the foundation of my career. I don't put myself above people. I don't put myself different than people. And I, for one, know that none of us is immune.
Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.
I do not think you can trust bankers to control themselves. They are like heroin addicts.