"When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are."

"The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice."

"But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty."

"It's never too late to be who you might have been."

"What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."

"There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music."

"Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty but it is religion and morality alone that can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand."

"Death: To stop sinning suddenly."

"Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content."

"The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons."

"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand."

"To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die."