If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'.

Everybody likes a compliment.

The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.

The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS

The worst thing you can do for anyone you care about is anything that they can do on their own.