Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Great books are great in part because of what they ask of their readers: they are not readily encountered, easily assessed.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

Honor is the most capricious in her rewards. She feeds us with air, and often pulls down our house, to build our monument.

He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)

We tend to think of prayer, in spite of ourselves, in terms of profit and loss.

Luke was a little boy in a growing body that felt pain and sadness and fear for his mum, and he always believed he would be safe with his dad.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.

The novel is very much alive, indeed. In Toronto at the Sixth Annual International Festival of Authors (October 1985) I listened to novelists by the dozen.

How come the little things bother you when you are in a bad position? They don't bother you in good positions.