“All speech, written or spoken, is a dead language, until it finds a willing and prepared hearer.”

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.

I’ve a grand memory for forgetting.

By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy.

Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.

It’s a pleasant thing to be young, and have ten toes.

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.

It is not likely that posterity will fall in love with us, but not impossible that it may respect or sympathize; so a man would rather leave behind him the portrait of his spirit than a portrait of his face.

If a man loves the labour of his trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him.

It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity.

Everyone lives by selling something.

I am always struggling in finding time to daily grow in my faith. If you are not in the Word or focusing on Christ, or into prayer, you can’t help but slip at times.

When you’re not finding the fairway, it’s hard to be consistent. [Right now] I’m comfortable and I’m not so comfortable, if that makes sense.

Ernest Hemingway was always uneasy in New York and liked being there less than in any other city he frequented.

The only way for a woman, as for a man, to find herself, to know herself as a person, is by creative work of her own.

Needle in a haystack, a small town on a roadmap, searching for you through the abstract- how incredibly hard to find.

Now more than ever I find happiness all around you.

I hope you find light in all the wounds once you felt dark.

I pray you to find a heart that would be way too big to love in any shallow way.