A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

Next time I see you, remind me not to talk to you.

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.

Vulnerability along with a sense of humility are the purest forms of strength.

Most people have the blindness of new-born things - a not-incurable blindness, the sight being there but its use not known.

He had lovely eyes, really—not assessing, at all, but big and dark and…waiting.

When I don't write, I feel my world shrink. I lose my fire, my color.

If you make the right choice in casting, your work is nearly done already. You don't have to spend a lot of time directing the actors, because they're so well suited to the parts.

The impact of the downturn is starting to feel very real. House prices and the housing market have been taking the knock for some time and that's affecting people.

If I announce the armistice and the Americans don't send sufficient reinforcements and don't land near Rome, the Germans will seize the city and put in a puppet fascist government.

I believe that leadership acts should be manifested by engaging in external work that can be observed and shared with everyone else.