The Master hath called us, in life's early morning, With spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod: We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scorning, To cast in our lot with the people of God.

And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.

If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.

Goodbye, kind year, we walk no more together. But here in quiet happiness we part.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers.

Tribalism never prospers, for when it does, everyone will respect it as a true nationalism, and no-one will dare call it tribalism.

Stop wishing for things you complain you have not, and start making the best of all that you've got.

There's no such thing as perfect people. There's no such thing as a perfect life. So come as you are, broken and scarred. Lift up your heart and be amazed and be changed by a perfect God.

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

Occasionally ask, "What is the connection between what I want most in life and anything I plan to do today?

Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.

It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country back to Republican.