Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!

Through this broad street, restless ever, ebbs and flows a human tide, wave on wave a living river; wealth and fashion side by side; Toiler, idler, slave and master, in the same quick current glide.

Swan flocks of lilies shoreward lying, In sweetness, not in music, dying.

Along the river's summer walk, The withered tufts of asters nod; And trembles on its arid stalk the hoar plum of the golden-rod.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

All the windows of my heart I open to the day.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all his works, Has left his Hope with all.

If thou of fortune be bereft, and in thy store there be but left two loaves, sell one, and with the dole, buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

I have always found peace among books.

Time flies, whether you’re wasting it or not.

Tears are not a mark of weakness.They just prove that your heart is alive.

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings.

God has made a way of salvation for the lost. Not a way, but the way. And this is the good news - the gospel.

I just feel so lucky to tell stories and make up stories and share them with people.

Your friendship is better than chocolate! Well, anyway, it's right up there.

I've had moments where I've felt like I was on another planet because I saw something beautiful. To me, taking pictures is being alive.

Faith is the collateral of heaven. It is what you use to trade with in heaven.

The history of all the world tells us that immoral means will ever intercept good ends.