What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury, but if we do not, no other agreement can do us any good. Let us endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace.
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
Faith, in order to be genuine and of any real value, must be the offspring of that divine love which Jesus manifested when He prayed for His enemies on the cross.
The edge in modern painting is charged with neurosis; it meets a world that no longer confirms it but which is hostile or at best indifferent.
I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings.
I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping even the whirlwind; onlyreaping an unprofitable calm and stagnation. Our conversation is a smooth, and civil, and never-ending speculation merely.
The truth hurts, but silence kills.