When we trust our brother, whom we have seen, we are learning to trust God, whom we have not seen.

Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.

A politician thinks of the next election. A statesman, of the next generation.

It may make a difference to all eternity whether we do right or wrong today.

Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well.

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

Conscience in the soul is the root of all true courage. If a man would be brave, let him learn to obey his conscience.

Manliness means perfect manhood, as womanliness implies perfect womanhood. Manliness is the character of a man as he ought to be, as he was meant to be.

I can do small things in a great way.

The atheist has no hope.

Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.

If you believe Might is Right, it follows that whoever cannot hold their ground does not deserve to keep it.

My heart is filled with overflowing gratitude.

Novalee watched his lips shape the words...the sounds, like whispered secrets, hanging in the air.

God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature.

Man, made in the image of God, has a purpose - to be in relationship to God, who is there. Man forgets his purpose and thus he forgets who he is and what life means.

Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances. Peace lies in finding God in these circumstances.

If you aren't hungry for God, you are full of yourself.

Each piece of writing I undertake, whether a story, novel, play, or poem, begins with an image.

I've never been the type of artist to plateau or have a big peak in my career and then a big decline.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.