Personality is the gland of creativity.

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

The lash may force men to physical labor, it cannot force them to spiritual creativity.

Youth has the resilience to absorb disaster and weave it into the pattern of its life, no mater how anguishing the thorn that penetrates its flesh.

Writing comes more easily if you have something to say.

If my only tool is a hammer, then every problem is a nail.

The best security for old age: respect your children.

Without a love of humankind there is no love of God.

The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is visible, and it therefore loses itself in details.

Every dawn renews the Beginning, and to behold the earth struggling out of the formless void, out of the night, is to witness the act of creation.

Humankind's ladder to God is a ladder of deeds.

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics

Never had Parliament or the crown, or both together, operated in actuality as theory indicated sovereign powers should.

As governor of Ohio, I have an obligation to keep the 11.5 million people in Ohio safe. And we have been very effective with our Joint Terrorism Task Force, being able to make busts.

The middlegame I repeat is chess itself, chess with all its possibilities, its attacks, defences, sacrifices, etc.

No one can be wrong with man and right with God.

I never want to pick an easy song. I want to continue to challenge myself vocally.

The world we are born into-this complicated, difficult, hauntingly touching world-is the one whole thing. It is the world we awaken in, and awaken to.

And I certainly won't lay out areas of my life that I think are just private.

A pastor friend of mine said, "Our problem is that we no longer have martyrs. We only have celebrities.

About 65 percent of Republicans believe that Donald Trump is not the best candidate to go head to head with Hillary Clinton.