The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

O, do not pray for easy lives.

The joy that comes from the action lasts forever while the pain is only temporary.

I am dying: it's a beautiful word. Like the long slow sigh of a cello: dying. But the sound of it is the only beautiful thing about it.

I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

There are hundreds who can stand failure to one who can stand success; the good loser is far more common than the good winner.

Spring is the shortest season.

I think the most important thing is to feel comfortable. If you don't feel comfortable with what you're wearing it really shows.

Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.

There are only three things in the world, one is to read poetry, another is to write poetry, and the best of all is to live poetry.

Probably the most memorable even of my life is when I was born. It really made me who I am. If I die, I hope to go out the same way I came in, but I don't think my mother would be into that.