Our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strengths.

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!

Where his boyhood retreat had been a cave hewn for one, it now accommodated two. He was suddenly two and it amazed and delighted, causing a stir in the pit of him, a kind of fibrillation.

When I was a baby I had no teeth. I couldn't get a job and I couldn't eat meat.

The good or the bad fortune of men depends not less upon their own dispositions than upon fortune.

One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

An absolutely different and distinctive character.

I think walking is very useful, like sleeping and dreaming, as something that's important to my ability to write.

If anyone tells you someone has changed their character; don't believe it.

Against the advice of my wife, I endorsed Arlen Specter. I should have listened to my wife.

...in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfections.