Sprinkled along the waste of years Full many a soft green isle appears: Pause where we may upon the desert road, Some shelter is in sight, some sacred safe abode.

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for.

Blest are the pure in heart, for they shall see our God. The secret of the Lord is theirs; Their soul is Christ's abode.

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish

Give us grace to listen well.

New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.

True beauty in a woman is reflected in the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows.

Never give up. For fifty years they said the horse was through. Now look at him - a status symbol.

All any grownup expects of an adolescent is that he act like an adult and be satisfied to be treated like a child.

I know how to make an audience laugh, 'cause I grew up on Third Rock from the Sun, week after week in front of audiences, making them laugh.

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.

What can we do but keep on breathing in and out, modest and willing, and in our places?

You may marry the man of your dreams, ladies, but fourteen years later you're married to a couch that burps.

Instead of being afraid of the challenge and failure, be afraid of avoiding the challenge and doing nothing

My dad was a musician and I traveled around with him, so it was something that I knew

I just like any music to swing, no matter what it is.