A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his brain is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.

A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults.

I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.

True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art.

Preparation is the be-all of good trial work. Everything else - felicity of expression, improvisational brilliance - is a satellite around the sun. Thorough preparation is that sun.

Education is not the accumulation of knowledge, but the ability to find it.

The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a cook.

A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring.

Success is the greatest teacher for future success.

An eye for beauty instead of bleakness might have lightened some of his load.

Gossip is passing on information when you are neither part of the problem nor part of the solution.

We're told that to be fly, you gotta have a fly car, the rims on your wheels, the fly jewels, and that to work a regular job and make legal money is uncool.

A soul who loves Jesus Christ desires to be treated the way Christ was treated-desires to be poor, despised, and humiliated.

Nothing is as important as the biggest day in your life.

Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death.

If you put the right things out there the right things will happen.

You can't have your privacy violated if you don't know your privacy is violated.

Alec Wilkinson is a spare, clear, and lucid writer who works in stylistic simplicity with material that is not simple at all.