We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.

Any relations in a social order will endure if there is infused into them some of that spirit of human sympathy, which qualifies life for immortality.

In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.

We may fight against what is wrong, but if we allow ourselves to hate, that is to insure our spiritual defeat and our likeness to what we hate.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

If everything happens for a reason that means you made the right choice even when it’s the wrong choice

You can’t move up in the staircase of leadership unless you are emotionally intelligent.

I am blessed with 365 days of thanksgiving and answered prayer.

It's always amazing how when we're sure we've lost something for good, it winds up finding us.

A Wednesday with no rain is a dry hump day.

I'm the boss. I'm allowed to yell.

Basically, I'm a people pleaser who has a knack for disappointing.

The best way to handle good fortune is to do something positive and useful with it. The best way to handle misfortune is exactly the same.

Enlist the interests of stern Morality and religious Enthusiasm in the cause of Political Liberty, as in the time of the old Puritans, and it will be irresistible.

If I have any insight at all to contribute it is this: find out what you are really good at and stick to it.