The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.

It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.

The future is a bright as the promises of God.

I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.

I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.

Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.

I feel it is my duty to plod on, while daylight shall last.

There was no starting point for the rebellion, but I could mark an arbitrary one: that a grown-up was someone who, first and foremost, could drink a Coke at whim.

Don't give up the fight. Don't dim out the light. Those who at first don't believe in you, will soon begin to ask you "how did you do it?” Keep it up!

Losing my mind sounds so pessimistic. I prefer the term winning my insanity.

We were created to look at one another, weren't we?

Wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.

I deem as heroic those who have the harder task, face it unflinchingly and live. In this world women do that.

Allow the brush to 'wander' above the realm of conventional judgement and practice.

The greatest deception, and the deepest source of unhappiness, is the illusion of finding life by excluding God, of finding freedom by excluding moral truths and personal responsibility.

I know nothing about love and romance, so I prefer to stick to just comedy.

The balance of power is the scale of peace.