The tulip's petals shine in dew, All beautiful, but none alike.

We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.

The doctrines of grace stand or fall together, and together they point to one central truth: salvation is all of grace because it is all of God; and because it is all of God, it is all for His glory.

No one ever truly comes to know, honor, or worship God without being changed in the process

A nation's strength is found not in the number of its laws but in the character of its people.

Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans; High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation.

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

Here hyacinths of heavenly blue, shook their rich tresses to the morn.

There is a flower, a little flower With silver crest and golden eye, That welcomes every changing hour, And weathers every sky.

The only thing I hate worse than a hero is a stupid hero.

And dilettantism is a humorous way to survive. Everybody understands you for it and everybody hates you for it. And not everybody chooses to be a dilettante. Many choose cunning and brute force.

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.

If you give Congress a chance to vote on both sides of an issue, it will always do it.

The best advertising should make you nervous about what you're not buying.

What you need will come back to you.

Data is the new science. Big Data holds the answers. Are you asking the right questions?

I've always been fascinated by maps and cartography. A map tells you where you've been, where you are, and where you're going -- in a sense it's three tenses in one.

You can be right or you can have empathy. You can't do both.

In Japanese art, space assumed a dominant role and its position was strengthened by Zen concepts.