Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

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 there's something you really want to believe, that's what you should question the most.

The concept of loyalty is a very strange concept. When loyalty is to be tested, the real answer is that may it never be.

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

If we were really tough on crime, we'd try to save our children from the desperation and deprivation that leave them primed for a life of crime.

Do something! Start something! As you make consistent efforts, you will begin to see your goals come into focus. You will discover your mission--the one only you can fulfill.

They are fools who do not know how much the half exceeds the whole.

I was all ear, And took in strains that might create a soul Under the ribs of death.

This freedom, this liberty, this beautiful and terrible thing, needful to man as air, usable as earth.

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.

A good cartoon, what it does, is sum up a situation, very neatly, as opposed to reading a lot of articles and so on.