The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

What we see depends mainly on what we look for.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

In this world we do not see things as they are. We see them as we are, because what we see depends mainly on what we are looking for.

A Cheerful friend is like a sunny day, which sheds its brightness on all around.

However vexed you may be overnight, things will often look very different in the morning.

Great battles are really won before they are actually fought. To control our passions we must govern our habits, and keep watch over ourselves in the small details of everyday life.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

If you look at a building by Mies van der Rohe, it might look very simple, but up close, the sheer quality of construction, materials and thought are inspirational.

Usually, if I think something is really funny, I'm not gonna test it. I'll just test it when I'm onstage.

Even when we fancy we have grown wiser, it is only, it may be, that new prejudices have displaced old ones.

The preaching of grace can only be protected by the preaching of repentance.

As long as you make an identity for yourself out of pain, you cannot be free of it.

Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.

When you compare music, you lose the joy of listening to it.

I love blogging, even though apparently it's still dying, and hate it when I have too much going on to do so regularly.

The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.