We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.

Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.

It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.

The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot

Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the existence of Bach superfluous.

Only tears can understand the joy of sorrow.

You weren’t in any real danger. We knew exactly where you were all the time.

Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.

......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

I definitely am afraid of the dark. Somehow, in my mind I can always come up with some horrific stuff to worry about.

What's the difference between yes and no?

I had to know at least two languages.

I really want to adopt a child... I want to be called 'Mom.' It really is the most beautiful word in the English language.

Use this day to do something daring, extraordinary and unlike yourself. Take a chance and shape a different pattern in your personal cloud of probability!