Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

We were all so young that there were no lines on our faces to read between.

Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.

One seventh of your life is spent on Monday.

My grandfather was a Pentecostal preacher.

To succeed, we have to be the party of change, we have to root out corruption in our own ranks and we have to be the party of solutions.

The greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.

Country music turns the stuff we say every day into a soundtrack...taking an ordinary working man like me into that rough, happy country of longnecks and short tales.

We need to make people understand that there is a definite connection between what happens in their everyday lives and the decisions we make in Washington, D.C.

I please myself with the graces of the winter scenery, and believe that we are as much touched by it as by the genial influences of summer.

Besides, when not hard at work with this research, I'm actually conducting a side experiment on how cigarettes and gin increase charisma. As you might guess, the results are looking very promising.