... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.

The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Oh wad some power the giftie gie us To see oursel's as ithers see us! It wad frae monie a blunder free us And foolish notion.

Illusion is needed to disguise the emptiness within.

What’s working, and how can we do more of it?

There wasn't a key moment when I knew I wanted to quit.

A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many other pleasures of the hunt.

Dirt is not dirty, but only something in the wrong place.

Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not.

Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

I did a guest appearance on The Practice and loved it.

I always hustled to make money and pay for school. I was never afraid of hard work.