Next to happiness, perhaps enmity is the most healthful stimulant of the human mind.

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

The ideal is the flower-garden of the mind, and very apt to run to weeds unless carefully tended.

As for pictures and museums, that don't trouble me. The worst of going abroad is that you've always got to look at things of that sort. To have to do it at home would be beyond a joke.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

Laughing is not the first expression of joy. ... A person laughs in idleness, for fun, not for joy. Joy has nothing, nothing but the old way of tears.

Even in misery we love to be foremost, to have the bitter in our cup acknowledged as more bitter than that of others.

Good works may only be beautiful sins, if they are not done in a true spirit.

All perfection is melancholy.

O wild dark flower of woman Deep rose of my desire An Eastern wizard made you Of earth and stars and fire.

My sense of humor often gets me in trouble.

The taming and domestication of religion is one of the unceasing chores of civilization.

Failure is not to be feared. It is from failure that most growth comes.

The phone rings and there's another Broadway show or another TV series or a movie. That's the gamble you take.

One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

"Jesus said to 5 of 7 churches, "Repent or Else." That should be the focus of every pastor, denomination. We are headed for the OR ELSE."

Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death

During his long political career, my father was always active in communicating the Christian gospel from the evangelical perspective.

Owning is owing, having is hoarding.