If the Old and New Testament teach us anything, they teach us that nothing is too difficult for God. What he originates, he orchestrates.

Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.

It's better to make a difference than to make a point.

There is no cramming for a test of character. It always comes as a pop quiz.

You have no idea the numbers of people that God may want to influence through you

Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say

Your devotion to God is illustrated, demonstrated, and authenticated by your love for others.

At the end of the day, God's love for me, for you, and for the world is settled at the cross.

It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.

Your greatest accomplishment may not be something you do but someone you raise.

Your friends will determine the quality and direction of your life.

there were lovely things in the world, lovely that didn't endure, and the lovelier for that... Nothing endures.

Ma had been very fashionable, before she married Pa, and a dressmaker had made her clothes.

I was an intelligence officer for what was then 8th Air Force, B-52 Air Force.

Personal privacy is a closely held American value.

Every thought was once a poem.

The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta.

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

The idea of changing or improving the world is alien to me and seems ludicrous. Society functions, and always has, without the artist. No artist has ever changed anything for better or worse.

The worst education which teaches self-denial, is better than the best which teaches everything else, and not that.

London is like a woman with too many years to encourage confession.