Certainly, friends are sufficiently rare not to be neglected; they are life's best comforters.

The effect of every burden laid down is to leave us relieved; and when the soul has laid down that of its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings.

How long time is when one is sad! Is it three years or three days since you went away?

The errors of the intellect are fatal, still more dangerous than those of the heart.

Kings may see their palaces fall, but the ants will always have their dwellings.

My God, how badly one calculates in this world! ... Let us leave off calculating on anything but death -- it is the only certainty.

One has so much time for thought in the country! However occupied one may be, 'tis with nothing that engrosses the mind, which works away on its own account like a mill-wheel.

One fancies that what one loves cannot die.

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

Solitude causes us to write because it causes us to think.

Witticisms are fire-arms, that make a noise and give pain.

The world has become jaded. Romance has died, some no longer believe in love, and because of this, they suffer.

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

Cristal go by the cases, wait hold up that was racist I would prefer the Aces, ain't no different when you taste it. A 40 ounce to chase it, that's just an understatement.

The selfish man cuts away the sand from under his own feet, he digs his own grave; and every time, from the beginning of the world until now, God Almighty pushes him into the grave and covers him up.

If you walk into a forest - you hear all kinds of subtle sounds - but underneath there is an all pervasive silence.

I fare the best when I'm in dangerous situations.

There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years--the language of the soul, told through the eye.

Where do you put your attention? On fear or love? I wish the choice were made just once and not repeated every moment of the day.

I'm a skydiver, I race motorcycles and I enjoy the thrill of life and for me in this walk of faith there really is no greater thrill than the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in your life.

Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at the sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground.