A day dawns, quite like other days; in it, a single hour comes, quite like other hours; but in that day and in that hour the chance of a lifetime faces us.

With time and patience, the mulberry leaf becomes satin.

Better to lose count while naming your blessings than to lose your blessings to counting your troubles.

Be strong! It matters not how deep entrenched the wrong, how hard the battle goes, the day how long, faint not, fight on! Tomorrow comes the song.

Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.

Pay little attention to discouragement as possible. Plough ahead as a steamer does, rough or smooth - rain or shine. To carry your cargo and make your port is the point.

Salvation is not putting a man into heaven but putting heaven into a man.

This is my Father's world: O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong Seems oft so strong, God is the Ruler yet.

Don't let the good things of life rob you of the best things!

The workshop of character is everyday life.

God be thanked for that good and perfect gift, the gift unspeakable: His life, His love, His very self in Jesus Christ.

Marry someone who flatters you. Because I've written 80 books since 'War Horse' but when my wife reads one, all she says is, 'It's quite good, but it's not as good as 'War Horse, ' is it?'

The studios knew how to build a star, and they knew what to do with you. They also taught you everything.

If I do marry, I'll expect a pretty serious dowry. I'm talking goats, pigs, chickens, the works.

There are hours when the Church must say NO to those who should ask communion with her, in the doing of her work, upon the basis of compromise.

Perseverance may be just as important as speed in the battle for the future.

Certain social situations make me feel like a square peg in a round hole. Realising you can connect to the human race through song makes me feel less alien.

It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.

My parents own a restaurant in Albuquerque.

The great god Pan is dead.

I think there is a commitment on the part of the White House to racial justice in this country, and no ambiguity.