We are not living in the land of the living and going to the land of the dying, but rather, we are living in the land of the dying and going to the land of the living.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

Hope is what keeps us hanging on when we feel our rope wearing out. A positive attitude is often the natural result of maintaining that hope.

The science of public happiness was how Keynes saw his work as an economist.

I wanted to acknowledge that life goes on but that death goes on, too. A person who is dead is a long, long story.

If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC

Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement.

When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.

When grace happens, we receive not a nice compliment from God but a new heart. Give your heart to Christ, and he returns the favor.

I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas.

Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.