Luck ... taps once in a lifetime at everybody's door but if industry does not open it luck goes away.

When your will is God's will, you will have your will.

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

Let your cares drive you to God. I shall not mind if you have many of them if each one leads you to prayer. If every fret makes you lean more on the Beloved, it will be a benefit.

You will never glory in God till first of all God has killed your glorying in yourself.

O child of God, be more careful to keep the way of the Lord, more concentrated in heart in seeking His glory, and you will see the loving-kindness and the tender mercy of the Lord in your life.

Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him.

If Christ has died for me, I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend.

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you're not saved yourself, be sure of that!

Who cares what a writer looks like as long as their words are beautiful?

Awful momentum makes carrying through easier than calling off folly.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

We're going to bring our jobs back home.

I'm trying to simplify my life, I guess that's my latest project.

Mediocrity is excellent to the eyes of mediocre people.

We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?

Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.

Sorrow's child grieves not what has passed, but all the past still yet to come.

Over the years I have realized that the mistakes and forgetfulness is what makes live shows more endearing.