Religion contracts the circle of our pleasures, but leaves it wide enough for her votaries to expatiate in.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Your work may not be noticed by people, but there is One Who sees everything you are doing

Conversion, constant conversion, is the message of the Gospel.

Policy-makers continue to discover that they cannot solve today’s problems with yesterday’s mindsets

Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.

I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

When you start separating people from their rivers, what have you got? Bureaucracy!

I wrote the first book, and I thought people would say: 'Separate and unequal schools in the City of Boston? I didn't know that. Let's go out and fix it.'

Actually... I'm starting a new thing and rebelling against ridiculously high heels. It's inhumane.

That's what I love about the mockumentary style, is the added thing of people knowing they are on-camera, which changes your behavior. That's why we sometimes do what we call spy shots.

I wanted to make room for antiheroes.