Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

The world is governed by opinion.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what no other can do.

May your life preach more loudly than your lips.

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Nothing which has entered into our experience is ever lost.

All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd even toward the best objective.

It is not the quantity but the quality of knowledge which determines the mind's dignity.

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

It was right that she was now staying at the ranch. She belonged there.

...uncorny, human sized drama

It's funny when people say something is "unreal" about something that is, in reality, real. I'm so guilty of it, it's real!

Quotes are like cayenne pepper or some other strong spice: a little goes a long way, and too much is a disaster.

Men, Babies, it doesn't matter...we're soulmates

They wanna see me pick back up, well where'd I leave it at?

A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.

Always hear the 'Yes' in the 'No'.

The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.