It's the generally accepted privilege of theologians to stretch the heavens, that is the Scriptures, like tanners with a hide.

Give light, and the darkness will disappear of itself.

If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on the hearer's mind and leaves implanted barbs for meditation.

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

No Man is wise at all Times, or is without his blind Side.

The majority of the common people loathe war and pray for peace; only a handful of individuals, whose evil joys depend on general misery, desire war.

In my experience, people who want to keep their painful injuries are using them as a crutch. They’re hiding from something.

I’m not gone.” He pulled her close and whispered in her ear, “And we’ve got tonight.

Sometimes we must leave our true homes for something greater to come.

Beliefs are collars to which leashes can be attached

In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.

I'm obsessed with how the press handles Donald Trump and how Trump handles the press.

I knew I wanted to be an actress as soon as I popped out.

When life is difficult, God wants us to have a faith that trusts and waits.

Of course, it has never paid much.