Pride never sleeps. The principle at least is always awake. An intemperate man is sometimes sober, but a proud man is never humble.

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.

I am wholly, ardently, unabashedly in love with you.

That's one small step for a man one giant leap for mankind.

It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions.

To reach people that no one is reaching you have to do things that no one is doing.

I loved the theatre-my dad gave me many plays and books to read. The dramatic form just spoke to me.

The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.

When a sketch comes into this three-dimensional form and everybody contributes, it's really fantastic.

I started out making furniture because I couldn't find certain things, and then I really got into it.

The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.

Waste equals food, whether it's food for the earth, or for a closed industrial cycle. We manufacture products that go from cradle to grave. We want to manufacture them from cradle to cradle.