Everything keeps its best nature only by being put to its best use.

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 you're an open book I would've carefully read through the pages you've written with your life so far, so I would know where you are at right now.

Either I will find a way, or I will make one.

How do I soothe his ache when mine was a big gaping hole large enough for both of us to fit in?

The image is where you have dinner at night, who you're seeing. It's what car you drive and how you dress. People in the industry sell that, and it creates a dream. There's nothing else.

Male chimpanzees have an extraordinarily strong drive for dominance. They're constantly jockeying for position.

Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be.

And if you are somebody who needs to get a pat on the back for everything that you do, editorial is not for you.

A muse comes down from Mount Olympus and changes my attitude, cheering me up - it's an inner intuition, suddenly giving a breakthrough to be able to move ahead.

I had learned so much about marriage from Missy that I only had to get divorced two more times.

Alcoholic: anybody who drinks more than I do.