In prosperity, give thanks to God with humility and fear lest by pride you abuse God's benefits and so offend him.

Money is really worth no more than as it can be used to accomplish the Lord's work. Life is worth as much as it is spent for the Lord's service.

Thus ended the first and adventurous part of his existence. What followed was so different that, but for the reality of sorrow which remained with him, this strange part must have resembled a dream.

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.

At the most subtle level, your inner intelligence is steadily progressing along the corridors of eternity.

There's a real emphasis on being witty in Scotland, even in crime novels.

What we shall need is not geniuses, or cynics, or misanthropes, or clever tacticians, but plain, honest, straghtforward men.

For some reason when it comes to democracy, we seem to think that political knowledge doesn't make any kind of difference or we shouldn't say that it does, like it would hurt people's feelings.

Who says the eternal being does not exist? Who says the sun has gone out? Someone who climbs up on the roof and closes his eyes tight, and says, I don't see anything.

The only way you can be free is to know is that you are worthwhile as a distinct human being.

Unless carefree, mother love was a killer.