God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

You were brought to where you are standing now because the decisions you took some time back have held you by your hands and dragged you this far.

In a world of limited resources, our wealth is at the expense of the poor. To put it simply, if we have it, others cannot.

Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

When I look in the mirror, I see a woman who is happy.

But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.

Christina Aguilera, to me, has one of the greatest voices of our time and I got nothing but respect for her.

People focus on things that vibrate very slowly during meditation and because they are so open they make themselves really sick, psychically.

I was just as voracious a writer as I was a reader.

The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

I am telling you to be a slow-speaking person.