When any duty is to be done, it is fortunate for you if you feel like doing it; but, if you do not feel like it, that is no reason for not doing it.

It is better to say, "This one thing I do" than to say, "These forty things I dabble in."

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

You are not so good a Christian when you are neglecting a plain duty as when you are performing it. And joining the church is a plain duty for all who mean to be Christians.

The substance of all realities is in this religion of Jesus Christ; but it can be real only to those who will do His will.

Every one of us may know what is the ruling purpose of his life; and he who knows that his ruling purpose is to trust and follow Christ knows that he is a Christian.

Slander, in the strict meaning of the term, comes under the head of lying; but it is a kind of lying which, like its antithesis flattery, ought to be set apart for special censure.

But what an mortal man do to secure his own salvation?" Mortal man can do just what God bids him do. Be can repent and believe. He can arise and follow Christ as Matthew did.

It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.

The past is recorded almost exclusively in the voices of elites and males, in the viewpoints of the wealthy and the powerful, in the visions of the literate and the educated.

Dragons were a problem sometimes, but they only came on Tuesdays, so you could work around them.

A lot of people fail to succeed in life because they see temporary negative situations as permanent conditions in their lives.

He was notorious for cutting short extraneous verbiage from over-loquacious barristers".

It is the struggle itself that is most important. We must strive to be more than we are. It does not matter that we will not reach our ultimate goal. The effort itself yields its own reward.

To live is to love, to love is to live.

When I use the Internet, it's pretty much strictly for music. Checking out other people's web sites, what's going on, listening to music. It's pretty much a musical thing for me.

I am often asked which of my films has come closest to my own ideal of performance, and I always answer, 'Educating Rita.'

The seasons of life are not meant to be frenetic, just full. Blessed is the woman who knows her own limits.

Better is the man of humble standing that works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.