Seldom can the heart be lonely If it seeks a lonelier still Self-forgetting seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.

Seldom can the heart be lonely, If it seek a lonelier still; Self-forgetting, seeking only Emptier cups of love to fill.

Silence is no certain token that no secret grief is there; Sorrow which is never spoken is the heaviest load to bear.

Love understands love; it needs no talk.

Take my will, and make it Thine, It shall be no longer mine; Take my heart, it is Thine own; It shall be Thy royal throne.

Teach us, Master, how to give All we have and are to Thee; Grant us, Saviour, while we live, Wholly, only Thine to be.

Hidden in the hollow Of His blessed hand, Never foe can follow, Never traitor stand; Not a surge of worry, Not a shade of care, Not a blast of hurry Touch the Spirit there.

We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author

Faithfulness to principle is only proved by faithfulness in detail.

No life can be dreary when work is delight.

Doubt indulged soon becomes doubt realized.

Real beauty has no boundaries’.

I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides.

Meaningful eye contact has the power to transcend time and space to connect us with others and can be one of the most gracious and important ways to demonstrate attention and respect.

The more challenging the obstacles in life, the greater the satisfaction in overcoming them.

Our mothers and our grandmothers some of them: moving to music not yet written.

I come from a district where the veterans are not the richest in the country.

His wife's a brand of Christian that forbids a gathering that involves young women dancing in the streets but not races where men die

I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16; I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining.

If I made a list of the people I admire, Mom would probably fill up half of it. She could do anything and everything.

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.