God puts his ear so closely down to your lips that he can hear your faintest whisper.

The pen is the lever that moves the world.

A mother is a bank where I deposit all my worries and hurts

I like the Bible folded between lids of cloth, or calfskin, or morocco, but I like it better when, in the shape of a man, it goes out into the world-a Bible illustrated.

I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work.

In the lottery of life there are more prizes drawn than blanks, and to one misfortune there are fifty advantages. Despondency is the most unprofitable feeling a man can indulge in.

Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed.

One good, hearty laugh is a bombshell exploding in the right place, while spleen and discontent are a gun that kicks over the man who shoots it off.

What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After a while they will be thrown on society nervous, exhausted imbeciles.

Lord, remember me when thou comest into thy kingdom.

By the 1990s, longevity will be so improved that 150 years will be no unusual age to reach.

If science can eliminate sleep, we will have more time to live and no time for the dreams. But living is superior to the dream because it is real!

A sincere call to the Almighty can change what you may have thought was impossible to change. Never lose hope.

Among the many values in life, I appreciate freedom most.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

If I can't have love, if I can't find peace, / Give me a bitter glory.

He described to me how crocodiles kill more people than sharks. There are just a lot of things in Australia that can kill you.

That text-books be permitted in Catholic schools such as will not offend the religious views of the minority, and which from an educational standpoint shall be satisfactory to the advisory board.

The world is no longer closed to us in the way it was in the past - present generations have unparalleled access to pretty much all corners of the globe.

People often ... have no idea how fair the flower is to the touch, nor do they appreciate its fragrance, which is the soul of the flower.

Some of my best work is done when I'm half asleep.