A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

O, do not pray for easy lives.

After a certain age, and even if we develop in quite different ways, the more we become ourselves, the more our family traits are accentuated.

A heart has its multiple facets of daily music. Respect a genuine good heart.

From the mid-1970s, I also started work on the causation and prevention of famines.

We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.

I grew up in Los Angeles and always wished I'd spent a childhood in a far different place.

I'd make a bad preacher.

They enslave their children's children who make compromise with sin.

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.

The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm

The haters always scream the loudest.