It is not who you know it is what you know - If you don't know anything, you won't know anyone

If you're going to win the race you have to be a participant

You are only as good as your reach, you must hold hands with others

The greatest enemy of any vision is discouragement or disappointment

God always estimates how diligent a person is to his work.

Breaking the cycle of ungrace means taking the initiative.

Love is ecstasy of life

Why will God's creatures sin against his throne? Can there be such madness in beings gifted with reason's light?

For the artist to attach himself to his work, or identify himself with it, is suicidal.

We're alike, Jess would tell himself, me and Miss Edmunds . . . We don't belong at Lark Creek, Julia and me.

We stand tallest when we stoop to help others.

You've got to be a certain type of person to be a professional fighter. I prefer to do it for pretend.

You like it under the trees in autumn, because everything is half dead. The wind moves like a cripple among the leaves and repeats words without menaing.