Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it continually.

Emerson has what I believe is called a selective memory. He can recall minute details of particular excavations but is likely to forget where he left his hat.

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

I want more awareness of humanity in this world.

A composer's job involves the decoration of fragments of time.

O loving wisdom of our God when all was sin and shame, a second Adam to the fight and to the rescue came.

I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.

My favorite toast is rye toast.

While he was alive Peter Jennings did considerable damage to the cause of civilization and human deceny [sic] by his sympathy for Jew-hating terrorists and their supporters.

We deserve punishment and get forgiveness; we deserve God’s wrath and get God’s love.

They are either people of faith who have lost their faith from reading my books, or they are people who had already lost their faith, and something about my books encouraged them to affirm that.