If you carry a sword, you obey the sword, not the other way round. Nobody can hold a weapon and keep their hands clear of blood at the same time.

Little did he know, back then, that the worth of one's faith depended not on how solid and strong it was, but on how many times one would lose it and still be able to get it back.

But there are times, " said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.

Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

You got to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positiveE-lim-i-nate the negativeAnd latch on to the affirmative.Don't mess with mister inbetween.

We all have banker problems. We all have issues.

You cannot spend two thousand years trying to understand God and then simply abandon the question and declare that we’re not interested in it anymore.

The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the sight of the eyes.

If a manager spends more than 10 percent of his time on "human relations" the group is probably too large.

God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.

Each of us, I suppose needs his illusions. Life after death. A maker of planets. A woman to love, a man to hate. Something sacred. But what a waste.

People tend to think of their lives as having a dramatic arc, because they read too much fiction.