Nothing corrects a badly made mind. A sad and irritating truth that we learn late and after so many wasted efforts!

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

We find little in a book but what we put there. But in great books, the mind finds room to put many things.

The evening of life brings with it its lamps.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Close your eyes and you will see.

True love does not put a person in a cage like a bird. It gives true freedom to soar.

Asking for blessings, receiving blessings, becoming a blessing, becoming a source of blessings

An artist's domain was private, a haven for practicing and experimenting, the one place where failure was still allowed.

There’s no way to stand up gracefully when your pants are down around your ankles.

I’m all about making money. It’s the greatest thing, because it means you get money to spend.

Tell me the truth - do you think I've lost my Southern accent? I feel it comes back to me only when I'm shouting at fights or at baseball games.

One thing you can't pretend to be is funny.

Worship is a meeting at the centre so that our lives are centred in God and not lived eccentrically. We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God.

I have less energy than I did when I was a younger parent, although I was never really a young parent.

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.