It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.

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.

It was trying to break down the stereotypes and it was the kind of thing where, for the first time, women were on a par and not seen as just objects. Though girls were objectified still.

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

I'm very happy alone.

What's so fascinating and frustrating and great about life is that you're constantly starting over, all the time, and I love that.

Love God. Live Called. It's not just devotional, it's vocational!

I'm a big fan of the young 1950s Elvis when he would just go onstage and control the whole environment.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

I smiled, I waited, I was circumspect; O never, never, never write that I missed life or loving.

Basically, Herman van Rompuy wants the European Union to become a debt union, which may be acceptable to some of the southern countries who are effectively bust. To the northern countries, it is not.

I'm a huge fan of [Elijah Wood] work and a huge fan of him, as a person. What's great about getting to know him is that he's just a really lovely, regular guy.