...in place of seeking a reason for going abroad, I would prefer to say that I have failed to discover any reason why I should stay at home.

I thought it reasonable that I should seek the work where the work was the most abundant and the workers fewest.

I go out as a missionary not that I may follow the dictates of common sense, but that I may obey that command of Christ.

To me the soul of an Indian seemed as precious as the soul of an Englishman, and the Gospel as much for the Chinese as for the European.

This command seems to me to be strictly a missionary injunction; so that, apart altogether from choice and other lower reasons, my going forth is a matter of obedience to a plain command.

Fear has no brains it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

Imagine smiling after a slap in the face. Then think of doing it twenty-four hours a day.

We all want to be the hero but some of us are born to be villains and side characters.

Tomorrow could not get better if one failed to survive today.

Everyone likes a bit of competition.

I had a New Year's kiss once. But it was like, "Let's start the year off together," and then we wound up breaking up the night after!

Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known... then went crazy as a loon." Lisa Simpson

If you're fortunate to have talent and getting paid for something you love doing. All you've got to do is perform for 90 minutes.

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.