I want to be great or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber so I don't intend to try any more.

Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds.

We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing.

I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship.

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Happy is the son whose faith in his mother remains unchallenged.

Is it not meningitis?

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others.

if its gets rough, you need to get tough.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Freedom to be yourself is among the most valuable freedoms I know.

An end of something means the beginning of something else, and I don't think that something else is going to be the death of the manned space program.

Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.

The angel rolled away the stone from Jesus' tomb, not to let the living Lord out, but to let unconvinced outsiders in.

Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.

My mom was definitely very strict with me.

Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the Gospels contain plenty of valuable evidence which has to be weighed and assessed critically.

If fate sends you a lemon, use it to make lemonade.