The great political questions are in their final analysis great moral questions.

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights; American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.

If the Bible had said that Jonah swallowed the whale, I would believe it.

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced back to the teaching of evolution. It would be better to destroy every other book ever written, and save just the first three verses of Genesis.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.

Selfish interest is one of the most common obstructions to the advance of truth.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

Two people in a conversation amount to four people talking. The four are what one person says, what he really wanted to say, what his listener heard, and what he thought he heard.

Knowledge will help you to solve any problem

I wrote a whole novel before The Beach. Unpublishable. Junk. But, for some reason I stuck at novels and wrote a second. Still not sure why I didn't give up. Stubborn, maybe.

My theory on smear pieces is try and win 'em over.

But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.

I had progressed on stage as a performer, but I hadn't progressed as a human being.

in God alone is love without tears, and of eternal duration.

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough.

When our service for the Lord becomes so busy that we forget the Lord Himself, it is time to stop everything and seek Him.

You realize that suicide's a criminal offense. In less enlightened times they'd have hung you for it.

Shyness is nice, but shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life that you'd like to.