when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

This is our great covenant: To dwell together in peace, To seek the truth in love, And to help one another.

Luck, good or bad, is the invisible play of mind upon affairs, the effect of mental aptitudes and habits which are not in sight, but which work and bring forth their due issues.

We have great power to see the truth when the truth is all we wish to see; but what is easier than to credit what we desire? and can a man deceive anyone so easily as himself?

Meditation ... must be power of will and strength of attention, being like a flight to great heights wherein wings must be plied hard though joyfully.

It is worth thought what kind of mind or condition or disposition is open to flattery; for poison would not be spread if the rats ate it not.

An enemy will train us in watchfulness; for if he be wary to seize on every error and trip us, we shall be more heedful to expose nothing, and this will drive us to prudence and thoughtfulness.

As anger is a passing storm, so it comes not gradually and with signs, but like a sudden sweep of wind or black squall.

As anger is a passion, it is to be ruled; as it is a weak passion, he is weak who rules it not.

Live with purpose.

After your friendship with God, your wife's friendship is the greatest treasure you possess.

...I remember the oily smoke of a cigarette suspended in a shaft of sunlight - with you, everything was beautiful...

Things exist either because they have recently come into existence or because they have qualities that made them unlikely to be destroyed in the past.

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

What we know of others is our personal secret.

I feel like every time I walk into the audition room, they can tell if you're faking it and if your heart's really not with it. So I try to keep it as real as possible.

I'm interested in living more of a life that's invisible to everybody and more vibrant to a fewer people that are in my life.

Jesus is God but he humbled himself to walk with us. He is our friend, our brother.

There's an invisible army of woman and men who really don't get why we give so much of ourselves to football. And they need to SPEAK UP.