"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."

"Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul."

"Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy."

"Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure."

"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."