Kind words are the music of the world.

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.

The Spirit goes ahead of us when we witness— preparing the way, giving us the words, and granting us courage.

I had always thought, for 'Roman Empire, ' I would love to do the death of Marcus Aurelius in the snow. One morning I woke up, and it was really snowing.

The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.

Street food, I believe, is the salvation of the human race.

If everything was perfect you would never learn and you would never grow.

Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.

The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior.

Everybody's crazy in some way and everybody's weird, and that kind of makes us all the same in a lot of ways. We're not alone, we just think we are.

Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.