Truth has a handsome countenance but torn garments.

A hedge between keeps friendship green.

who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet..

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty

There is no such thing as bad weather, only inappropriate clothing.

Charity sees the need, not the cause.

It's the whole not the detail that matters.

God gives the nuts but he does not crack them.

You have to take it as it happens but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.

Never give advice unless asked.

To be full of being is to live as a body-soul. One name for the experience of full being is joy.

Sometimes Christian apologists say there are only three options to who Jesus was: a liar, a lunatic or the Lord. But there could be a fourth option - legend.

What's that as flies without wings, your ladyship? Time! Time!

I work on one page, revising and polishing until I can't make it better, then move on to the next. Some pages might get 20 or more drafts before I move on.

... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.

A good work can be communicated across languages ... [provided one does not] fall into the trap of narrow-minded nationalistic or chauvinistic thinking.

Know your enemy - and learn about his favorite sport.

It had never occurred to us that the Kremlin's new anti-booze campaign would apply to journalists. Now, that's a human-rights violation.

If a little voice in your head is telling you something is up, maybe you should listen.

And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust