The air was filled with phantoms... and... the misery with them all was, clearly, that they sought to interfere, for good, in human matters, and had lost the power forever.

It is good to be children sometimes, and never better than at Christmas when the Great Creator was a child himself.

... Any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness!

Reflect upon your present blessings -- of which every man has many -- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Great souls are great inspirers.

Sooner or later sin makes its claim on a person.

I as an artist, as an individual, I have a certain affect on people.

I think Nick Markakis is a perennial All-Star, and nobody knows about him. I think people are learning about how good he is.

You can't be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live

I am not a black artist, I am an artist.

At the final judgment, everyone will stand before God alone.

A diaper is as inspiring as a drink.

If you evade suffering you also evade the chance of joy. Pleasure you may get, or pleasures, but you will not be fulfilled. You will not know what it is to come home.

Long ago I realized that no other person would be to me what you are.