O, do not pray for easy lives.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

Who can understand the covert world of the emotions, the secret life of the mind?

Anyone can see that intending and not acting when we can is not really intending, and loving and not doing good when we can is not really loving.

Empowerment isn't a buzzword among leadership gurus. It's a proven technique where leaders give their teams the appropriate training, tools, resources, and guidance to succeed.

Creative without strategy is called 'art.' Creative with strategy is called 'advertising.'

When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.

I think movies do change people's hearts.

Failure is an event, not a person. You are NOT a failure!

A lot of people think that kids say the darnedest things. But so would you if you had no education. You'd just be like, I am bike cheese. Because you wouldn't know what words were.

Let your characters talk to each other and do things. Spend time with them - they'll tell you who they are and what they're up to.

The day that I ever become hip... please shoot me and put me outta my misery!