Exactness in little things is a wonderful source of cheerfulness.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

The great fact is, that life is a service. The only question is, "Whom will we serve?

Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.

There is a grace of kind listening, as well as a grace of kind speaking.

There are no disappointments to those whose wills are buried in the will of God.

Remember that if the opportunities for great deeds should never come, the opportunities for good deeds are renewed day by day. The thing for us to long for is the goodness, not the glory.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.

Many a friendship - long, loyal, and self-sacrificing - rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word.

Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.

Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

I am an i poet.

Don’t go in the opposite direction, locate your calling

Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.

Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.

So much organized religion, in my opinion, ends up being life-denying.

If there was absolute freedom, people would run over babies and charge admission.

I'm a workaholic. I could easily work 300-plus days of the year.

If you hesitate, some bolder hand will stretch out before you and get the prize.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.