God gave you not a spirit of faithlessness, not a spirit of despair.

God helping me, I will help my brothers and sisters in Christ, because they are my brothers and sisters.

There will be no misgiving, no shrinking back, no calculation of overpowering odds, no terror of possible consequences, if you frankly accept the gift which God offers you tomorrow.

Plant thy foot firmly in the prints which His foot has made before thee.

Yes, forget your weakness, whatever that weakness may be. It is egotism, it is selfishness after. all, for it is a dwelling on self. Forget your weakness; and remember your strength.

There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.

Eternal truth, eternal righteousness, eternal love; these only can triumph, for these only can endure.

Not only must the message be correctly delivered, but the messenger himself must be such as to recommend it to acceptance.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

If you are apostles at all, you are apostles, not of men, nor by man. Your sufficiency is of God.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

Love is the light of our soul which lets us see the beauty of this world.

It was growing late, and though one might stand on the brink of a deep chasm of disaster, one was still obliged to dress for dinner.

True sportsmanship is excellence in motion!

You can't fight the desert... you have to ride with it.

I cherished my time playing high school sports.

The one thing that I keep learning over and over again is that I don't know nothing. I mean, that's my life lesson.

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.

In Cuba and specifically in Havana there's a sort of energy that turns every situation into something unexpected.

like any Irish mother, I am scar tissue to the bone.

One of the odd things about being a writer is that you never reach a point of certainty, a point of mastery where you can say, Right. Now I understand how this is done.