It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn and to arrange what we know.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care!

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

Not being "okay, " is a gift. And inside that gift, is the strength to change and the courage to begin again.

Happy are those who choose, those who accept being chosen, the handsome heroes, the handsome saints, the perfect escapists.

My first instinct when I write songs is not a negative one. It's something positive... Everything I've ever done has some form of hope in it, I think.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

You cannot chase a dollar and an ideal at the same time.

And I would argue the second greatest force in the universe is ownership.

Art is the reasoned derangement of the senses.

Reading for writers is like training for athletes.

I love yoga. I do yoga when I have time, which is not very often.

This generation, and many others, have been led to believe that the devil is a myth, a figure, an idea, the idea of evil... But the devil exists and we must fight against him.