Prayer is not eloquence but earnestness.

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.

Sin, on the contrary, is the pursuit of legitimate self-regarding interests at the expense of the neighbor, by spending our time and talents figuring out ways of exploiting them.

It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try to walk again, placing your entire weight on something that is no longer is there.

Too many people are endowed with a feeling of entitlement, but born without God-given empathy.

The path to greatness begins with your willingness to take small steps.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

The best relationship student -teacher is in knowing who is right for you and who you are right for.

Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly finds no creative outlet as an adult.

I feel privileged that people are looking up to me and perhaps a dream will be born because of my presence.

People are often talking when they are not supposed to be.

With Sachin Tendulkar and Brian Lara, it was better to be friends and make them smile rather than wind them up.