Teaching is the royal road to learning.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.

A religious awakening which does not awaken the sleeper to love has roused him in vain.

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.

If you train people properly, they won't be able to tell a drill from the real thing. If anything, the real thing will be easier.

People who keep journals have life twice

Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.

I've done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.

The SEC now is 3500 chickens, and we need to get some foxes in there.

He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.

The more wants we have, the further we are from God, and the nearer we approach him, the better can we dispense with everything that is not Himself.

I was too shy to go and meet Princess Diana.

Expect Nothing, Do Your Work, Celebrate.

I get a feeling of peace from a low so high, as I sit in my chair and watch life go by.

If we show the Lord's death at Communion, we must show the Lord's life in the world. If it is a Eucharist on Sunday, it must prove on Monday that it was also a Sacrament.

It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.

Lead us not into temptation. Just tell us where it is; we'll find it.

Songwriting is reliant on inspiration, which ideally you don't have that much control over. Songs kind of half make themselves, and then you have to finish them.