When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Pray the largest prayers. You cannot think a prayer so large that God, in answering it, will not wish you had made it larger. Pray not for crutches but for wings.

O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

I do not pray for a lighter load, but for a stronger back.

Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still.

O, do not pray for easy lives.

Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

When we advance a little into life, we find that the tongue of man creates nearly all the mischief of the world.

None of my friends smoke. I've never smoked a cigarette in my life.

Country music has always been about as close to R&B as you can possibly get. We're storytellers.

I thought Fred Astaire was the most chic man. I loved the way he dressed. Never mind his dancing, which was beyond - he was just so elegant and had this freedom of body.

and did you get what you wanted from this life even so? i did.

I want to do whatever I can to survive.

When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so.

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.