The dream Dreamed by a happy man, when the dark East, Unseen, is brightening to his bridal morn.

It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried

More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of.

We are all a part of every person we have ever met.

I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

...and our spirits rushed together at the touching of the lips.

Ours is not to wonder why. Ours is just to do or die.

if you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking.

God gives us love! Something to love He lends us; but when love is grown To ripeness, that on which it throve Falls off, and love is left alone: This is the curse of time.

There’s the impossible and then there’s Cosmic Ordering.

Any subject we exclude from fiction will drop from our culture's memory.

Multiply your potentials with your plans and it will be equal to your purpose of existence. Your potentials are your seeds of greatness.

The rising sun can dispel the darkness of night, but it cannot banish the blackness of malice, hatred, bigotry, and selfishness from the hearts of humanity.

I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.

But there remains the question: what righteousness really is. The method and secret and sweet reasonableness of Jesus.

When I'm alone, I work sometimes with music, sometimes without and sometimes just listening to NPR.

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

War is not some sort of Nintendo video game.

Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.