The narrator, I think, must succeed in frightening himself before he can think of frightening his reader…

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.

There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.

A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.

Do you find this...distracting?

Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.

God is much in the difficult home problems as in the times of quiet and prayer.

Mankind, from Adam, have been women's fools; Women, from Eve, have been the devil's tools: Heaven might have spar'd one torment when we fell; Not left us women, or not threatened hell.

And it's tough traveling. You know, the hotels and the airports and all that. That part, eating and getting around to the hotel room and then going on.

Amiability shines by its own light.

History is the revelation of Providence.

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music I make.

Every German soldier must be made to feel that he is living under the muzzle of a Russian gun.