Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.

I went down like a drunken cowgirl trying to line dance to Metallica.

Sure, it is apparent that presidents are looking at polls, but they are also stepping up on issues. President Clinton stepped up on tobacco. He shaped the polls on the tobacco issue.

The Old Testament is the record of men's conviction that God speaks directly to men.

The latest fashion… is absolutely necessary for a painting. It’s what matters most.

Routine is part of coping.

It's hard to imagine that our love is a story with an end. But you know, at least I'm getting some really good songs out of it

You cannot do a kindness too soon.

What writing does is to reveal.

It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.