Pure love is in the will alone; it is no sentimental love, for the imagination has no part in it; it loves, if we may so express it, without feeling, as faith believes without seeing.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.

The art of cookery is the art of poisoning mankind, by rendering the appetite still importunate, when the wants of nature are supplied.

A general rule for the good use of time is to accustom oneself to live in a continual dependence on the Spirit of God.

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation.

The more you say, the less people remember.

The greatest of all crosses is self. If we die in part every day, we shall have but little to do on the last. These little daily deaths will destroy the power of the final dying.

Of all the duties enjoined by Christianity none is more essential and yet more neglected than prayer.

Let gratitude for the past inspire us with trust for the future.

How rare it is to find a soul quiet enough to hear God speak.

When passion is lit, the fire permeates your being with the positive expectation that all is well and everything will turn out great.

Humility is a peace that accepts one's strengths and limitations.

They try to fight the waves, but they can’t fight the moon. They can’t fight the world’s rotation or the bathymetry of oceans or the inevitability that sometimes things just don’t work out.

For me, it's all about moderation. I don't kick things out of my diet, like carbs. But I'm not going to eat fast food.

CEOs of large corporations earn 400 times what their workers make. That is not what America is supposed to be about.

Fairies are becoming much more popular. I see fairyland as this big sea, and the tide is sometimes out.

Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop.

Sometimes I sing very honestly, really as moving as possible.

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

I respect you more than anyone. But right now I’m wondering what bothers you more, that I made a stupid decision or that I didn’t make your decision.