I want to be aware of how I treat others, not thinking too highly of myself to be a servant in a culture which tries to place me on a throne that only God should sit.

Agnes always wanted to go out. Out was better than in. In was inside, in was interior, in was introspection.

If you are silent at wrong things happening on your life time, you are destroying your children's future to the next fourth generation to come.

A tiny hole can empty a great big bucket.

My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it.

Opportunities are where the complaints are.

I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

I have procured air [oxygen] ... between five and six times as good as the best common air that I have ever met with.

You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth.

You can't get a bad picture out of Bacall. There's nothing eccentric about her. She's perfect all over and yet she looks like nobody else.

Sometimes you can’t choose what you love.