Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Never look directly at the sun. Instead, look at the sunflower.

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.

Patience is not a virtue. It is an achievement.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

It's easier for a rich man to ride that camel through the eye of a needle directly into the Kingdom of Heaven, than for some of us to give up our cell phone.

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

Withhold a smile only when the smile can hurt someone. Otherwise, let it bloom forth in a riot.

The master of the garden is the one who waters it, trims the branches, plants the seeds, and pulls the weeds. If you merely stroll through the garden, you are but an acolyte.

Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either.

If you plan to wake up tomorrow, plan for it.

What this letter does is bring us into an atmosphere in which the institution could only wilt and die. The Letter to Philemon

How lovely are the portals of the night When stars come out to watch the daylight die.

Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience.

A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership, which Christ has not made a condition of salvation.

People who claw their way to the top are not likely to find very much wrong with the system that enabled them to rise.

Our mandate is simple: raise up a generation that can openly display the raw power of God

The thing about inventing is you have to be both stubborn and flexible. The hard part is figuring out when to be which.

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back.