Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.

Never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for and you will succeed.

Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one's own genes in the generations to follow.

Publishers like a good buzz, and negative responses sell books just as well as positive ones.

The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

There are acres of diamonds in the problem you have before you right now.

If frogs could fly... well we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat?

I try to use whatever I know about photography to be of service to the people I'm photographing.

Some of us seem to be born with a drive to try to make the world kinder.

She gets to school late. Bashful gives her a tardy, and won't reconsider. Janie always hated Bashful. Stupidest. Dwarf. Ever.