We prefer one room in Rangoon to six in Boston. We feel that we are highly blessed.

There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.

If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.

It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.

The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

The future is a bright as the promises of God.

I will not leave Burma until the cross is planted here forever.

I am not tired of my work, neither am I tired of the world; yet, when Christ calls me home, I shall go with gladness.

Let me beg you, not to rest contented with the commonplace religion that is now so prevalent.

God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.

Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.

Nothing we do makes us real. That which is real makes us do.

One female who knows what to dois better than a thousand males who don't.

He had a bright, reckless tenor that was always wandering off, looking for notes in the wrong places.

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?

The public don't know what they want; it's my job to tell them.

I like critics with strong opinions.

I've always said in my career and in my life I only do things I'm interested in.

No, he hadn’t just dragged her to California. He’d dragged her into a cursed eternity. A burden that should have been his alone to bear.

When you make yourself into zero, your power becomes invincible.

I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.