Strange, (is it not?) that battles, martyrs, blood, even assassination should so condense - perhaps only really lastingly condense - a Nationality.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.

We were together. I forget the rest.

Either define the moment or the moment will define you.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Be curious, not judgmental.

Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

Simplicity is the glory of expression.

The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.

When one reaches out to help another he touches the face of God.

The bond (of marriage) became the bondage itself

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

I don't get fan mail. It disappeared with the digital revolution.

So make it your aim and lifelong habit, when you see someone who's serving, to be reminded of the sacrifice of the Savior, for apart from His sacrifice there is no serving.

We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.

I seldom deal in symbolisms; if there be hidden meanings in my verse, they are there without my knowledge.

There cannot be peace where there is not trust; there cannot be freedom where there is not loyalty

Before the bud swells, before the grass springs, before the plough is started, comes the sugar harvest. It is sequel of the bitter frost; a sap run is the sweet goodbye of winter.

Out beyond our world there are, elsewhere, other assemblages of matter making other worlds. Ours is not the only one in air's embrace.

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.