True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment.

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.

Fate loves the fearless.

The devil loves nothing better than the intolerance of reformers.

All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Light is the symbol of truth.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof.

The brain can be easy to buy, but the heart never comes to market.

Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become.

No personality in history stands above Jesus Christ . . .He alone is able to meet every need of the human race.

Bethyl Ann has vomited words like she ate the dictionary.

Silence is a learned practice that requires far more than just not talking. Not talking is not silence; it's just not talking.

So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.

Normally our season is seven weeks in the Drama Theatre and four weeks in the Opera Theater.

I don't have that much experience in the studio, but I'm always really uncomfortable when I'm there. You're on the clock and it costs a lot of money.

When you give your best, that's all you can ask of yourself, all that people can ask of you and all that god desires from you. No matter what the result, walk with your head held high.

I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.

The belief in free-will is not in the least incompatible with the belief in Providence, provided you do not restrict the Providence to fulminating nothing but fatal decrees.