Blessed be those souls who are glad! They are a salve for sorrow and fatigue. A sun in days of darkness, a joy in sorrow, a ray of heaven shining through the uncertainness of earth.

Peace is the wait of the patient soul.

One of the most perfect and unfailing joys of life is planting. It is the creative joy felt by God.

And then came a time when I could no longer say 'We,' and I found myself in a lonesome land where no one remembered that I had ever been young, or called me by my given name.

perpetuity in a home is a blanket for the cold years that come with age.

If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!

A great magazine is sort of a net for ability.

Poor, successful, fallible Republican party! If it could only have kept the purity of the patriot impulse of which it was born!

Those who complain that fate is against them will have a hard time finding happiness in their lives

Infinite possibilities exist within the art of storytelling. To me, it is nothing less than the magic of creation.

My biggest fear is that I'm not good enough. I have this voice in my head that I've been battling for years that says, 'You're not really talented enough. You don't really deserve this.'

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

I attend surprisingly few shows. The type of theater that is popular today just doesn't appeal to me.

Unconsciously we grow to look upon the sick as people of another world.

Frederick Douglass had to teach himself how to read before standing up to defeat slavery.

Nations whose nationalism is destroyed are subject to ruin.

During the fire: 'Some of the drunker ones don't move. Some of them laugh. One person says, "Where's the marshmallows?" Mark slaps him across the face. "GET OUT!" he screams.

The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without.