Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness.

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

The sky is full of tokens which speak to the intelligent.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.

That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.

All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.

Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.

It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

I think of a piece of music as something that comes alive when it is being performed, and I feel that my role in the transmission of music is to be its best advocate at that moment.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of what he is and he will soon also learn what he should be.

Hell, Justin and I even talking about recording a blues song sometime.

I was very comfortable on the set of Lost. I was so nervous when I went on to the set because I had just watched all the Lost episodes. I was, like, a fan. A big fan.

It was involuntary. They sank my boat.

I'm not a prettier everywoman. I am an everywoman that they clean up awfully well for T.V.

You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'