There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.

We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.

In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.

Reach up as far as you can, and God will reach down all the way.

The teacher should use illustrations for the better teaching of the lesson, and never to fill up time, to amuse the class, or to display his own genius.

Success may require a lot of days. But progress only requires one.

Chin up princess, or the crown slips.

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write.

Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers and boys used to dress like their fathers. Now girls drink like their fathers and boys dress like their mothers.

We are defined and controlled by all that we have not transcended.

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

Some things are too important to be left to the private sector.

Dearest Jesus, holy child, make thee a bed, soft, undefiled, within my heart, that it may be a quiet chamber kept for thee.

Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom.