Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.

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.

I love 'Top Chef.' I think it rewrote the book on how food shows are presented on TV.

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.

Sometimes you can hear them talk, other times you can't. All the same old cliches, is that a woman or a man?

Psychological adulthood is by no means a universal attainment.

Every night I go over what I did in the day, in ethical or moral terms. Have I treated people properly? Did I tell the truth?

Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave.

I believe that whatever your religious preference, there has to be a commitment to family because everything really does start there.

All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.

One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Flying is the only active profession I could ever continue with enthusiasm after the War.