Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation.

What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a universal mind?

There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel.

As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

Give us more and more of real Christianity, and we shall need less of its evidences. Act upon the supposition that Christ is a Divine Teacher, and you will soon have a demonstration of its truth.

Beware of those who speak ill of others in your presence.....don't be surprised of what they say in your absence.

...because unlike some, I wasn't in line when they were handling out perfect genes.

I don't just write books. I climb inside and live there.

And I went into the new year loving myself a little less, but a little more where it actually mattered.

In the area we're discussing, leadership begins on Madison Avenue, on the desks and in the offices of people who spend hundreds of millions of dollars buying what will get them ratings.

A joy that is shared is a joy made double.

Isn't it so weird the day you wake up and you're just going with the flow? And you just suddenly are a mom.

But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.

But I'll try to immerse myself in as many of the formal characteristics of site as possible in the landscape.