No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.

Happiness is a gift and the trick is not to expect it, but to delight in it when it comes.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

The most important thing in life is to stop saying 'I wish' and start saying 'I will.' Consider nothing impossible, then treat possibilities as probabilities.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Romance this moment, this hour, this day. String moments together like pearls on a rope.

Adulthood is accretive by nature, a thing which arrives in ragged stages and uneven overlaps.

A day is too precious a treasure to forfeit.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster's autobiography.

Nonviolence is impossible without humility.

I like to have fulsome discussions on every topic. What happens if you lose this show? What would you do? We have to look at every hypothesis.

The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.

The other big lesson from Katrina is that it pays to be prepared. But it's also very difficult to stay prepared because the longer you go between events the more you'll see complacency.

I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.

I feel like clothing is very much emotional, you know?