Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

Do you think it is only a little thing to possess a house from which lovely things can be seen?

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Anyone who truly loves God travels securely.

I know the power obedience has of making things easy which seem impossible.

Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.

I write slowly and get distracted a lot.

I first started wearing fragrance when I was thirteen or fourteen, and the smell was candy-like. They were in very colorful bottles, like turquoise and pink. By the time I was sixteen or seventeen, it got more girly and more floral.

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

I can drink on the job if I want to. I can go on stage with a beer and it's OK. I can say whatever I want. It's a great job to have.

I came from a good, repressed Catholic background.

In 1997, a severe depression hit me, but I didn't respond well to anti-depressants.

It was always my desire to strike new ground and help to lend weight where it was most required.

Lyrically we tried to just not be the same as a lot of the other crap that is out there right now.

I live a very low-key life.

London had so much death in its history, it was hard to find a spot without spirits. They formed a safety net. Still, you had to hope the ones you got were good.

When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.

As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

His bark is worse than his bite.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.

Now when I came to go up to operations, I went down to this patient's room and got down on my knees at the foot of the bed and earnestly asked the Lord to help us and to help me.

When I'm writing, I'm just in it and trying to figure out what seems best.

Of all the peoples of the world, the Chinese are probably the most at home with their excrement. They know its value. For 4,000 years they have used raw human feces to fertilize fields.

In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.

Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.

When I'm on stage, it's really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It's funny how different it looks and how it's happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I'm going to get a bagel.

Thanks to my reading, I have never been caught flat-footed by any situation, never at a loss for how any problem has been addressed... It doesn't give me all the answers, but it lights what is often a dark path ahead.

Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body.