I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

Courage doesn’t happen when you have all the answers. It happens when you are ready to face the questions you have been avoiding your whole life.

God has made relationships His chosen delivery system for the gospel of hope.

Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.

I love beautiful women, and beautiful women love me. It has to be both ways.

Writing keeps me from believing everything I read.

My Book and Heart Shall never part.

A man's got to have a code, a creed to live by, no matter his job.

I firmly believe that IBM's size can be used to its advantage.

I could imagine, some number of years from now, starting my own company. But not yet. Not for a while.

God help the troubadour who tries to be a star. The more that you try to find success, the more that you will fail.