No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

The true aim of everyone who aspires to be a teacher should be, not to impart his own opinions, but to kindle minds.

In God's world, for those who are in earnest, there is no failure. No work truly done, no word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice freely made, was ever made in vain.

A silent man is easily reputed wise. A man who suffers none to see him in the common jostle and undress of life, easily gathers round him a mysterious veil of unknown sanctity, and men honor him for a saint. The unknown is always wonderful.

Only so far as a man believes strongly, mightily, can he act cheerfully, or do anything that is worth doing.

It is not the situation that makes the man, but the man who makes the situation.

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

To turn water into wine, and what is common into what is holy, is indeed the glory of Christianity.

No one can be great, or good, or happy except through the inward efforts of themselves.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

Men... are bettered and improved by trial, and refined out of broken hopes and blighted expectations.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits, than to say that our lives and habits depend on our opinions.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet - a life that every thinking man, with deeper or shallower meaning, has agreed to call divine.

Love is not a union merely between two creatures, it is a union between two spirits.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

The office of poetry is not to make us think accurately, but feel truly.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

We are too much haunted by ourselves projecting the central shadow of self on everything around us. And then comes the Gospel to rescue us from this selfishness. Redemption is this to forget self in God.

It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on these things till the truth in them becomes your own and part of your being, that ensures your growth.

It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Many men of genius must arise before a particular man of genius can appear.

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

I feel like we're attracted to paths in life that force us to look at our weaknesses or deficiencies as human beings. Not to get all deep on you, but that's how I feel.

I met Mr. Hoover socially. I never talked to him about anything connected with his work. We just met him.

The very strength that protects the heart from injury is the strength that prevents the heart from enlarging to its intended greatness within. The song of the voice is sweet, but the song of the heart is the pure voice of heaven.

Mauna Kea from Hilo has a shapely aspect, for its top is broken into peaks, said to be the craters of extinct volcanoes, but my eyes seek the dome-like curve of Mauna Loa with far deeper interest, for it is as yet an unfinished mountain.

Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity.

I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of my skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?

I feel I was always daydreaming, and I was always distracted.

Fighting is easy to understand. You just hit the guy as hard as you can.

I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

I mean it shouldn't hang you up emotionally if your record fails.

Usually when I start a new project there's a fear of the unknown; maybe it's a band I've never been in the studio with before. People are so different. It's almost like you need to go through the process, discover and unlock what it is that makes that band that band. And a lot of times they don't know it.

My strength is to communicate with an audience and to know what jazz singing is capable of.

The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.

An early fascination with higher mathematics at the university level blossomed into speculative thinking that could provide a basis for dealing with economic issues.

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

Whether you're reaching for one of your favorite cookbooks or just winging it, do your best to keep a well-stocked arsenal of healthy ingredients at your disposal. At the very least, you'll always be ready to whip up a green juice or smoothie.

I listened to my record and hear lots of influences. And it's very rich... it's got a wide spectrum.

Blues means what milk does to a baby. Blues is what the spirit is to the minister. We sing the blues because our hearts have been hurt, our souls have been disturbed.

I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.

I get little kids who recognize me from 'Mary Poppins,' and it just delights me because it's our third generation.