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.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Any moment which is not captured is loss in events of time.

American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

It was there I met my future wife, Celeste Landry, although our lives took us separate ways for many years and we were not to marry until more than ten years later.

One of the least enjoyable things for me to do is to talk about myself.

May God fill this beautiful land of Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador with his peace and love.

Consumers all over the world will be able to flip open their phones and see their favorite Warner Music videos.

When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .

What man really seeks is not perfection which is in the future, but fulfillment which is ever in the present.

So I went into government with a clear mind about what the problems were, and what needed to be done.