He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness.

The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.

Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence

There are two things to do about the gospel. Believe it and behave it.

I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions.

When I had forgotten God, yet I then found He had not forgotten me. Even then He did by His Spirit apply the merits of the great atonement to my soul, by telling me that Christ died for me.

I am content to fill a little space if God be glorified.

The cruelest thing you can do to a person who's living in panic is to offer him or her hope that turns out false. When the crash comes its intolerable.

It is not difficult to learn a new idea, but it is almost impossible to unlearn an old one.

If life were a highway, I would still look for the footpath, for walking that, I would learn about us, enjoying the extra time to do so.

I've been a fanatic about working out all my life.

Creativity is a scavenger hunt. It's your obligation to pay attention to clues, to the thing that gives you that little tweak.

I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.

I can't believe there are so many people who aren't us.

She smiled as sweetly as a show poster for the glorified, all-American Ziegfeld girl just before dumping her second cigarette into Wally’s fresh cup of coffee.

I was never afraid of going after what I wanted, and making that known, and being vocal about it.

He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give.