The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.

Oh would some power the gift give us, to see ourselves as others see us!

My heart 's in the Highlands, my heart is not here; My heart 's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.

Now's the day and now's the hour.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire.

There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing.

The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.

The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men, Gang aft a-gley, And leave us nought but grief and pain, For promised joy.

Dare to be honest and fear no labor.

But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, it's bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.

Learn taciturnity and let that be your motto!

Marriage is like a well-built porch. If one of the two posts leans too much, the porch collapses. So each must be strong enough to stand on its own.

About the time I told God that He didn't exist, I was desperate for an identity.

The adversary system is a kind of warfare in mufti.

Whatever with the past has gone the best is always yet to come.

Jealousy is the suspicion of one's own inferiority.

There'll be no smoking in the gas chamber.

Testimonies are wonderful. But, so often our lives don't fit our testimonies.

I prefer to think of the audience as a single living organism with which I am sharing a singular, never-to-be-repeated experience.

Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all.