We need to teach empathy as we do literacy.
Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.
Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.
He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
Music is a safe kind of high.
This is not to say that joy is a compensation for loss, but that each of them, joy and loss, exists in its own right and must be recognised for what it is. . . So joy can be joy and sorrow can be sorrow, with neither of them casting either light or shadow on the other.
The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut. '
Sometimes when I am drawing outside - when it is cold out it gets difficult (my hand gets slower when it is really cold) because I do not like wearing a glove while drawing, because I cannot feel the paper right.