Do not dare to live without some clear intention toward which your living shall be bent. Mean to be something with all your might.

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.

Would you rather work forty hours a week at a job you hate or eighty hours a week doing work you love?

If money can't buy happiness, then I guess I'll have to rent it.

In my parents I saw a model where they were really always communicating, doing things together. They were really kind of a team. I wanted some of that magic myself.

Forgiveness is, first of ali, a gift I give myself.

Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.

Were one merely to seek information, one should inquire of the man who hates, but if one wishes to know what truly is, one better ask the one who loves

The child endures all things.

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

Life is so endlessly delicious

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.