Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

You are no longer responsible. You are no longer allowed to give a shit. Nobody can need you ever again. Go.

There is a lie in between a promise and many excuses.

I didn't have to undergo reconstructive surgery.

I'm at my best in a messy, middle-of-the-road muddle.

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.

I feel the most pulled together when I'm going for the tomboyish thing.

What makes me angry'is that it wasn't me who revealed that I had been with Osama Bin Laden. I originally denied being involved with Osama when the London Guardian threatened to 'out' me.

I'm not a New Yorker. I grew up in Detroit. A lot of people think it's one big city but they're completely different.

Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.

Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's not your fault.