There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.

Prayer is not eloquence, but earnestness; not the definition of helplessness, but the feeling of it; not figures of speech, but earnestness of soul.

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

A crown! what is it? It is to bear the miseries of a people! To hear their murmurs, feel their discontents, And sink beneath a load of splendid care!

Absence in love is like water upon fire; a little quickens, but much extinguishes it.

No man ever repented of being a Christian on his death bed.

The misfortune is, that religious learning is too often rather considered as an act of the memory than of the heart and affections; as a dry duty, rather than a lively pleasure.

We are apt to mistake our vocation by looking out of the way for occasions to exercise great and rare virtues, and by stepping over the ordinary ones that lie directly in the road before us.

There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

The world does not require so much to be informed as to be reminded.

If you have to injure someone, then make it so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Do not be like those on whom advice has no effect and who require punishment to correct themselves.

There is a lot of years in my 20s that acting was really on the back burner not even saying I was traveling and writing, taking pictures and just kind of living and figuring out what I wanted to do.

Friendship is a traffic wherein self-love always proposes to be the gainer.

It turns out we're very good at not seeing things

I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.

Life is much different from the days when there were lilies in my mother’s garden, and all my secrets fit into a paper cup.

Mysticism is not this or that particular cup on the table; it is the water poured into all of them.

To me, more importantly, I want to make films that I believe in, that I find value in that I think folks will like.