O little town of Bethlehem, how still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep the silent stars go by.

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.

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.

If man is man and God is God, to live without prayer is not merely an awful thing: it is an infinitely foolish thing.

The circumstances surrounding your birth is not as important as the opportunity to live life.

I pray for humble spirit and a willing heart.

And so sometimes I would think how the devil had conquered God.

Art does what reality cannot.

Dogmatism is by far the best fall-back defense, the most impregnable castle, that ignorance can find. It's also a dead give-away that the person doesn't know why he believes what he believes.

I have so many people who still talk to me about The Long Kiss Goodnight, about that being one of their favorite movies, and it really was a fun movie.

Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.

The short successes that can be gained in a brief time and without difficulty, are not worth much.

...Poetic injustice...having made over Japan in our own image. The Japanese, ...are now, next to us, the greatest consumers of meat in the world.

Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.