Christ was born of a woman without the man.

To fall in love with God is the greatest romance; to seek him the greatest adventure; to find him, the greatest human achievement.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A Christian is: a mind through which Christ thinks, a heart through which Christ loves, a voice through which Christ speaks, and a hand through which Christ helps.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

What men do matters more than what they know.

Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world tho' the cant of hypocrites may be the worst the cant of criticism is the most tormenting.

There is no Levitical decree between nations, and on this occasion I can see neither sin nor shame in marrying our own sister.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

I'm very competitive, I think.

To garden is a solitary act.

The one place I've seen something really come together is in editing. Sometimes you can save pieces in a way that you're really shocked.

What generally happens in this county is that our politicians don't serve us well because they don't tell the truth, and they don't keep their promises.

...for my master, bad as I have thought him, is not half so bad as this woman.-To be sure she must be an atheist!

Looking at the creative process is like looking into a crystal: no matter which facet we gaze into, we see all the others reflected.