It would be difficult to determine whether the age is growing better or worse; for I think our plays are growing like sermons, and our sermons like plays.

We neither laugh alone, nor weep alone, why then should we pray alone?

The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.

We can only love what we know.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

Children have almost an intuitive discernment between the maxims you bring forward for their use, and those by which you direct your own conduct.

The first pale blossom of the unripened year.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

It is to hope, though hope were lost.

Say not 'Good-night' but in some brighter clime, bid me 'Good-morning.'

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

I'm a doofus from the Valley, a blue-collar guy.

Most anger stems from feelings of weakness, sadness and fear: hard to remember when one is at the receiving end of its defiant roar.

There was already a deep black wordless conviction in him that the way to avoid Jesus was to avoid sin.

That's why I get excited over new things, because I didn't have much when I was smaller and my parents could only do so much.

I really had no idea when I pitched the series that it would lead to so much fun and so much connecting with kids and moms.

Footwork is one of the primary prerequisites to becoming a great player

Where you are is of no moment, but only what you are doing there. It is not the place that ennobles you, but you the place, and this only by doing that which is great and noble.

Think globally, act locally": "Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.