The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil.

If the power to do hard work is not a skill, it's the best possible substitute for it.

I never meet a ragged boy in the street without feeling that i may owe him a salute, for I know not what possibilities may be buttoned up under his coat.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

I love agitation and investigation and glory in defending unpopular truth against popular error.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.

If there is one thing upon this earth that mankind love and admire better than another, it is a brave man, - it is the man who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Right reason is stronger than force.

Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.

The business of imagined pleasure is associated with pain.

In nature there are few sharp lines.

I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one.

I enjoy traveling and playing some of the well-known courses sometimes, but basically, I have a good time at Barton Creek.

There is an American tragedy in which we all have played a part.

I don't really drink, and I've never been to a rave. I used to cut school to read Shakespeare, not to make out in the park.

When we fully realize who God is, we learn that each of us is a child of the King!

Nothing costs so little, goes so far, and accomplishes so much as a single act of merciful service.

God bless every soul that we lost. God bless the families who have to endure that loss, and God guide us to our reunion in heaven, and God bless the United States of America.