"Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly."

"And this our life, exempt from public haunt,/ Finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks,/ Sermons in stones, and good in everything."

"The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means."

"When things are at their worst I find something always happens."

"The key to non-anxious sermon-writing is that it’s not about me. It’s about the congregation. I honor the fact that the listeners bring more to the sermon than I do. I remind myself of the hundreds of times someone says, 'I loved how you said…' and then tell me things that they heard that were nowhere in my text and that I never said. But they heard what they needed to hear."

"I think we're having fun. I think our customers really like our products. And we're always trying to do better."

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."

"In love, one and one are one."

"Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words."

"Life is too complicated not to be orderly."

"Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters."

"I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things."