If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.

And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.

But the waiting time, my brothers, Is the hardest time of all.

The Master hath called us, in life's early morning, With spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod: We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scorning, To cast in our lot with the people of God.

Goodbye, kind year, we walk no more together. But here in quiet happiness we part.

Lots of people talk to animals...Not very many listen though...that's the problem.

Making people laugh is magic. I feel like if you have humility, then you can do anything in comedy.

Day turned to night, His friends scattered and death thought it had won. But heaven just started counting to three

Most people spend their entire life imprisoned within the confines of their own thoughts. They never go beyond a narrow, mind-made, personalized sense of self that is conditioned by the past.

One vice worn out makes us wiser than fifty tutors.

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.

I don't think it's like eastern mysticism, which leaves the person whole. It's really another form of cancer, television.

The most confident person in any transaction ALWAYS introduces themselves first.

Where Example keeps pace with Authority, Power hardly fails to be obey'd.