Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

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.

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

He wanted to imprison his nameless misery in words.

You cannot do what I do for a living without having a thick skin.

In art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.

Bigotry toward any faith community cannot have any place in civilized society anywhere in the world.

Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?

Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well.

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

Violence is not the answer but neither is peace.

If we change the stories we live by, quite possibly we change our lives