Greatness is not so much a certain size as a certain quality in your life.

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.

Because that's the truth about people with obsessively organised plans: we're not trying to control everything in our lives. We're trying to block everything we can't.

You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel, " but comic books are still incredibly stupid.

I don't want people to judge books by their cover, I want people to be open minded to the rest of the world.

Las Vegas turns women into men and men into idiots.

Testing shows the presence, not the absence of bugs.

The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.

It's okay to be a freak.

Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself.

Only Napoleon did more than I have done. But I am definitely taller.

Overcoming sin, blessed though it surely is, is but the bare minimum of a believers experience. There is nothing astonishing in it. Not to overcome sin is what ought to astonish us.