There is no real evil. Ignorant spirits might appear to be dark, but they are simply at an unenlightened (literally, in the dark) level.
Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.
If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.
Be a leader with a ladder, not a boss with an order.
Indeed, the acknowledgement of God is not synonymous with religion.
You cannot change the past, but you can make a difference now
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
When God is ready for you to move, He will make your situation uncomfortable.
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget; but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open...