As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.

When we have to change an opinion about any one, we charge heavily to his account the inconvenience he thereby causes us.

It is a great mystery to me how the problems of others seem like simple arithmetic while my own appear as complicated as a calculus equation.

This is me, asking a risk-taker like you to trust me. To let me love you until I take my last breath. These were my last solo flights. From now on I want to wing everything with you and only you.

Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.

Stubbornness destroys good advice.

I'm a strong believer that if you score goals, you win matches.

Medicine is a social science, and politics is nothing more than medicine on a grand scale.

I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.

Ive been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldnt say anything, literally.