You can close your eyes to the things you don't want to see, but you can't close your heart to the things you don't want to feel.

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.

We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.

We should like those whom we love to receive all their happiness, or, if this were impossible, all their unhappiness from our hands.

Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has.

I don't like the feeling, but I've got to say that a little fear makes me a more focused, more responsible programmer.

...to see that God does answer, in great things as well as small, the prayers of those who put their trust in Him will strengthen the faith of multitudes.

The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.

We shall progress inch by inch.