One afternoon late in October of the year 1697, Euclide Auclair, the philosopher apothecary of Quebec, stood on the top of Cap Diamant gazing down the broad, empty river far beneath him.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Success is never so interesting as struggle

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

The sky was a midnight-blue, like warm, deep, blue water, and the moon seemed to lie on it like a water-lily, floating forward with an invisible current.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

It takes a great deal of experience to become natural.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

Elsewhere the sky is the roof of the world; but here the earth was the floor of the sky.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

The end is nothing; the road is all.

The simplest person who worship God is wiser than the supposed wisest people who worshiped a worthless substitute.

No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that.

The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us - here and now.

And all now is war where so lately there was peace, and the sweet brotherhood, the use of tilled fields.

I don't write for Christians. I write for people. I write so that if a Christian hears my music, they're going to be encouraged because I'm writing from the Christian worldview.

One must dig deeply into opposing points of view in order to know whether your own position remains defensible. Iron sharpens iron.

We should not allow wealthy people, including corporate criminals, to hide their assets and avoid paying their bills.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

To attain his dream, the warrior of light needs a strong will and an enormous capacity for acceptance.

I have friends who go [Tokyo] frequently on business, and it sounds interesting. I've heard that they have for the first time serious drug problems.