Character cannot be made except by a steady, long-continued process.

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.

Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.

… we don't need more command and control

Night does not show things, it suggests them. It disturbes and surprises us with its strangeness. It liberates forces within us which are dominated by our reason during the daytime.

Events circumstances etc. have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.

When you're talented, you're talented.

We are looking for a Wealth Tax that will bring in sufficient revenue to justify having a wealth tax.

When you shoot in America, you have huge beams of sunlight in the windows, very vivid sunlight - it's faster in a way.

We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

Wilderness itself is the basis of all our civilization. I wonder if we have enough reverence for life to concede to wilderness the right to live on?

WHAT ARE YOU, NUTS? THE MAN'S A VAMPIRE! Yeah, but he's a really, REALLY sexy one.