Are you thankful for not being young?''Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

...and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

Ah me!" said he, "what might have been is not what is!

Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John.

If you put Sen. Kerry in the White House, I think you are going to see that another terrorist attack happen ... and I don't want to see another Sept. 11.

Unless you're the director on the movie, or putting up the money for the movie, you really don't have a lot of control.

People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.

The mark of a great shiphandler is never getting into situations that require great shiphandling.

I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.

The Heavens are as deep as our aspirations are high.

Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.

Does it bother me that I'm attached to 'Three's Company' 30 years after? Not at all. All we were trying to do was be funny. How can I complain? That's all I wanted to do.

Great sea captains are made in rough waters and deep seas.

The joy of the Lord is your strength.