It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

We never know the worth of water till the well is dry.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

Health is not valued till sickness comes.

If you would have a good wife, marry one who has been a good daughter.

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Anti-intellectualism remains strongly entrenched in many parts of the church, but it is grounded in fear, not in faith. (p. 19)

That which does not kill you ... probably isn't close enough, so just start running.

Two thousand years ago God invited a morally corrupt world to the foot of the cross. There God held your sins and mine to the flames until every last vestige of our guilt was consumed.

My specialty is detached malevolence.

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

My ideas are not developed before I actually do the pieces.

Dreams have always expanded our understanding of reality by challenging our boundaries of the real, of the possible.

Imagining what it is like to be someone other than yourself is at the core of our humanity. It is the essence of compassion, and it is the beginning of morality.

The quantum hypothesis will eventually find its exact expression in certain equations which will be a more exact formulation of the law of causality.

Four years ago... no, it was yesterday.