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.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

If you wish to view this as a cautionary tale, be my guest.

Facts are not truths they are not conclusions they are not even premisses but in the nature and parts of premisses.

One barrier to being a great parent is the mistaken belief that we are raising kids.

I went through absolute stress and mayhem. I couldn't go out, because people were constantly on my back all the time.

Humility like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

The best athletes in any sport take stretching very seriously before and after matches. Stretching is instrumental in any athlete's physical success.

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you.

I have always thought that while it's wonderful to be the first to do something, you don't want to be the last.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

My whole career, I've tried to bounce back and forth between everything, and not get typed out. I've done a pretty good job of not getting typed.