The absence of sentimentalism in Christ's relations with men is what makes His tenderness so exquisitely touching.

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.

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

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.

Of all the heartache I will ever know, only some of it will be real. The rest, I will create.

If it's sanity you're after There's no recipe like Laughter. Laugh it off.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then?

The first willing concert I went to was Aerosmith when I was like 14.

Sets of lines can say something about the direction and nature of the light. They are used by great fresco painters as a sign for shade.

The usefulness of a pot comes from its emptiness.

America is such a paradoxical society, hypocritically paradoxical, that if you don't have some humor, you'll crack up.

We're all pretty individualistic.

We get together on the basis of our similarities; we grow on the basis of our differences.