I like to hear a storm at night. It is so cosy to snuggle down among the blankets and feel that it can't get at you.

Every soldier must know, before he goes into battle, how the little battle he is to fight fits into the larger picture, and how the success of his fighting will influence the battle as a whole.

The first duty of a leader is opti­mism. How does your sub­or­di­nate feel after meet­ing with you? Does he feel uplifted? If not, you are not a leader.

My own definition of leadership is this: The capacity and the will to rally men and women to a common purpose and the character which inspires confidence.

As God once said, and I think rightly.

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

In daylight I belong to the world . . . in the night to sleep and eternity. But in the dusk I'm free from both and belong only to myself . . . and you

Rule 1, on page 1 of the book of war, is: 'Do not march on Moscow'... Rule 2 is: Do not go fighting with your land armies in China.

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

you can pass a football, you can gas, but you yourself cannot just pass~cam after lilly's mother informs her that lilly has passed

What must not be read must not be written.

When you make your mark in the world, watch out for the envious with erasers.

Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.

I think it's good that opportunity, like circumstances, can really affect what you do and you have no control over it.

You seem to forget that I'm Evie's legal guardian." "And you seem to forget that there's absolutely nothing legal about your guardianship, considering all the documents were forged.

Since I have fair skin, I have to stay out of the sun. I can't stand the sun. I dyed my hair red for a while during the 1990s but I'm actually a natural blonde.

Beware of reasoning about God's Word - obey It.

He treats me like the dirt under my feet.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure, even that to be found in reading a story.