The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance

We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.

There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are.

I got attention by being funny at school, pretending to be retarded, and jumping around with a deformed hand.

I'm not the kind of person who tries to be cool or trendy, I'm definitely an individual.

Don't let someone else's opinion of you become your reality.

But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.

How each of us comes for our own reasons." "Comes where?" "To be with them and listen to their message. What Stephen meant was that our motives are wrong. Our thinking is wrong. But if we come... with an open heart and mind, we will see the rightness of their declarations.

His eyes fixed on mine for an instant, then he turned back to the fire.