Proportion and propriety are among the best secrets of domestic wisdom; and there is no surer test of integrity than a well-proportioned expenditure.

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 pity the man who praises God only when things go his way.

Humility, gratitude, and generosity – three things you can never go wrong with.

When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.

I remember that my mother once told me that the opposite of love isn't hate, it's indifference.

I really didn't study any music. I just picked it up real quick.

Women over thirty are at their best, but men over thirty are too old to recognize it

You want diversity in any intellectual organization. I mean, that's how good ideas arise.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Pitching is 80% of the game and the other half is hitting and fielding.

The '80s were about trying to establish myself as an actor with a career. And being a teenager enjoying the fruits of being successful with lots of what I think is appropriate for that age.