Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

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.

Teaching is only demonstrating that it is possible. Learning is making it possible for yourself.

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

I don't need to see the old school to remember it and the teachers there. They changed the way that I've always looked at life and learning.

Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?

One of the things I had a hard time getting used to when I came to California in '78 was Santa Claus in shorts.

The weirdest thing about Hillary Clinton's email 'scandal' is finding out some of our senators still don't use email.

Inspiration is the impact of a fact on a well-prepared mind

Anyone in the United States today who isn't paranoid must be crazy.

If somebody wants to have plastic surgery, more power to them. I think there's a point where you go overboard.

I think kids love superheroes, and the more you can crowd into a story, the more excited they get.