Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.

Pain is always a fanged serpent, but to the fearful it has a hundred heads.

The ancient Hebrews did not write the name of God. I often wish the Christians would follow suit, as never was a word more misused in writing and speaking than the name of the Lord.

The best grammarian still can't write a verse.

Dictators long ago found that it is easier to unite people in common hatred than in common love.

The Hebrews have no name for Him, the Moslems have a hundred. Both suggest the same thing, that there are concepts as well as emotions that can be communicated only allegorically.

Darkness swallows everything, even pain. That’s what makes it so tempting. Comforting. It disguises weakness as strength.

We shall never have more time. We have, and always had, all the time there is. No object is served in waiting until next week or even until tomorrow. Keep going... Concentrate on something useful.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.

Well, everything surprises me about the writing process because illustrating comes much more naturally to me than writing does.

Whatever had happened to him [Newt] out there — maybe even related to his lingering ankle injury — had been truly awful.

The attitude of other people affects each of us and the attitude of each of us has the capacity to affect all of us.

Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

If you're not grown up enough to understand that a trailer is not done by the director, then fine. Judge the movie from the trailer.

Thinking that education is something different from discipling our children is a sure sign that we have been 'educated' by the state. Education is discipleship.

As the young spend less of their lives in natural surroundings, their senses narrow, physiologically and psychologically and this reduces the richness of human experience we need contact with nature.