Nothing, except what flows from the heart, can render even external manners truly pleasing.

Exercise is the chief source of improvement in our faculties.

Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.

The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible.

It is pride which fills the world with so much harshness and severity. We are rigorous to offenses as if we had never offended.

What ever purifies the heart also fortifies it.

Human ability is an unequal match for the violent and unforeseen vicissitudes of the world.

Fretfulness of temper will generally characterize those who are negligent of order.

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

Those who are learning to compose and arrange their sentences with accuracy and order are learning, at the same time, to think with accuracy and order.

To exult over the miseries of an unhappy creature is inhuman.

We belong to Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour.

Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become.

By the time I got there, you’d already decided. And I quickly decided to let you decide. You were already seeing the rooms as ours, and that was enough for me.

When maintaining a relationship means diminishing your self, it's time to walk.

Killing time is not an easy job.

It is not inspiration; it is expiration.

I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.

There is kind of a fundamental conformity, which is a virtual requirement to enter into the media.

You [the Gallaudet students] have brought the deaf community together.... You are my heroes.