A total commitment to anxiously serve the Lord and others is the surest way to overcome temptations of the adversary.

Commitment . . . is a binding, but happy, response to duty. It is at once peaceful yet compelling, for it obligates one to action. It is essential to the good life. It is doing what everyone can do.

Ian willed all his energy, all his strength through that touch and into Chris. Take it, take everything, babe. I'm yours.

Facts are stubborn things but statistics are more pliable.

I have been schooled by my own suffering: I've learned the many ways of being purged.

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.

Scatter seeds of kindness.

South Sea natives who have been exposed to American movies classify them into two types, 'kiss-kiss' and 'bang-bang.

No man speaketh, or should speak, of his prince, that which he hath not weighed whether it will consist with that veneration which should be preserved inviolate to him.

If you consider the contribution of plumbing to human life, the other sciences fade into insignificance.

Cancer is everybody's cause.

Access to public libraries also affects how much children read.