Yes, death, the hourly possibility of it, death is the sublimity of life.

Eternity is the divine treasure-house, and hope is the window, by means of which mortals are permitted to see, as through a glass darkly, the things which God is preparing.

... science and speculation pass into mystery at last.

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

It is our souls which are the everlastingness of God's purpose in this earth.

Let a disciple live as Christ lived, and he will easily believe in living again as Christ does.

Let God do with me what He will, anything He will; and, whatever it be, it will be either heaven itself, or some beginning of it.

The second childhood of a saint is the early infancy of a happy immortality, as we believe.

God would never have let us long for our friends with such a strong and holy love, if they were not waiting for us.

This earth will be looked back on like a lowly home, and this life of ours be remembered like a short apprenticeship to duty.

Not every hour, nor every day, perhaps, can generous wishes ripen into kind actions; but there is not a moment that cannot be freighted with prayer.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

When you're an artist, you have to hope for everything and expect nothing.

I think it would be great if America got along with Russia because we could fight ISIS together.

Out of ugly, make something beautiful.

In America, we celebrate success. We don't apologize for success.

If you allow yourself to feel fabulous, you are fabulous.

Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities whatsoever.

I just wanted to be Patti's [Smith] messenger and get her word out there.

To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy.

Whatever happens on the golf course is OK, because if I put the ball in trouble I know that I have the skills to get it out of trouble and back into play.