If you want to see birds, you must have birds in your heart.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice - no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service.

How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’.

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

I like children. If they're properly cooked.

I've never made up events, but I've always been a big exaggerator. It's written on my humorist license that I'm allowed to do that.

At the same time, you have to find the right distance between people. Too close, and they overwhelm you, too far and they abandon you. How to hold them in the right relation?

Converting grace puts God on the throne, and the world at His footstool; Christ in the heart, and the world under Hisfeet.

When you're touring, it's somehow hard to focus on other things. I know other people can do it, but I really can't.

Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.

I think when you look to the future what you'll find is that the Republican Party is building a bigger party base on stronger values.

I'm so excited I had a seven-car police motorcycle escort. I've had escorts before, but nothing like this... I'm really in awe, coming here and seeing so many cars, so much enthusiasm.

When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished.

You cannot slay yourself in me, Nor I to all eternity Destroy my truest self in you.