We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

I saw you put rice in a toaster once, " said Mae. "I was there when made the tin of beans explode.""It was faulty, " Jamie protested, his eyes shifty. " I am sure of this.

The purpose and point of this life is to learn and love – and it may be more specifically to learn to love.

I didn't really want to give up music.

Particular facts are never scientific; only generalization can establish science.

Plot was always secondary in my mind.

Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.

I tried to make the best music that I could possibly make, and then nothing was ever good enough.

Running reminded me exactly who I am and what I am made of.

I am writing my second novel for children for Simon and Schuster.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.