The great mountains of the world are a great remedy if men but did know it against our modern discontent and ambitions. In the hills is wisdom's fount. They are deep in time.

He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world.

The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone

Let me be one of the people who writes their life history, not with ink, with the colors of a caring heart.

Even when we are lost, God has not lost us.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.

Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.

We are all constantly transmitting information to the people around us, and the messages we choose to communicate either create success or hold us all hold back.

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.