The voice that breathed o'er Eden, That earliest wedding day.

Peace is the first thing the angels sang.

And help us, this and every day, to live more nearly as we pray.

Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.

Once you make up your mind never to stand waiting and hesitating when your conscience tells you what you ought to do, and you have got the key to every blessing that a sinner can reasonably hope for.

Blest are the pure in heart, for they shall see our God. The secret of the Lord is theirs; Their soul is Christ's abode.

When you find yourself overpowered, as it were, by melancholy, the best way is to go out and do something.

If the Church of England were to fail, it would be found in my parish

Give us grace to listen well.

New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

Why should we faint and fear to live alone,Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die?Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh.

Like life, love is a constant adventure and a constant process. It is not a possession.

You think writing a book is hard? Wait until you give it to someone to read.

Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond.

I'm so sick of mermaid dresses, trains, borrowed bling-bling, and a pose.

A driving range is the place where golfers go to get all the good shots out of their system.

I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.

The finger cut, to save the hand.

how ridiculous we often are in our negations, our strutting self importance, our penchant for making labels and sticking them on people. As though labelling a person disposed of him!

If you need to know in advance that everything will 'work out' before you jump in, you'll never jump into anything.

I?m 57 years old and there are adventures out there for me.