We can hold to the iron rod even if others slip away and a few end up mocking us from "the great and spacious building."

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

Drinking turns a fool into a merry fool.

I have always had confidence in our front line F.B.I. personnel as well as the F.B.I. leadership.

You hurt my feelings." He shoots me a wounded look. "I wasn't aware that you had any.

The only shame is to have none.

I know what I did and how I accomplished it. I am proud of it and know that it was done with integrity.

It is easier to die bravely than to live so.

Year by year we are learning that in this restless, strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

President Obama instituted the most anti-growth, anti-investment, anti-jobs measures that we have seen in our lifetime. Now he called his agenda ambitious, I call it reckless.

I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.

The Comrade Wolf knows whom to eat, as the saying goes. It knows whom to eat and is not about to listen to anyone, it seems.