Thanks be to God we lived so long and did so much good.

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

All imaginable futures are not equally possible.

The aim is to get as much going out the back as is coming in. You've got to do that because for everything you get in you've got to give something out.

The gospel of grace is not the license to sin. On the contrary, it is the power for them to sin no more!

Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.

The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned.

Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.

Detachment is the ultimate pleasure.

The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.

A very beautiful honey blonde, Sharon Tate, looked into the eyes of the man who the evidence shows just four and a half months later would order her tragic and violent death.

I have heard men talk about the blessings of freedom," he said to himself, "but I wish any wise man would teach me what use to make of it now that I have it.