In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.

The destiny of the country depends on the actions and the position of His messengers

All rising to a great place is by a winding stair.

There are a few people who are, let's say, personality-challenged, who would like to set up a cult, but in large part they fail due to the innate stroppiness and independence of their fellow pagans.

Our big prize tonight is fifty American dollars to the girl with the most exciting mammalian protuberances.

God's Word really carries me every day.

Free nations of the world cannot allow Taiwan, a beacon of democracy, to be subdued by an authoritarian China.

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

The duties of religion, sincerely and regularly performed, will always be sufficient to exalt the meanest and to exercise the highest understanding.

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

I had gone to Oxford to read music. I had done music all my life, but when I got to college I didn't want to do it anymore.