the ultimate meaning of words cannot be found in what the listener hears but in what he listens to upon hearing

Books may be irrelevant until it's relevance, importance and purpose is discovered through reading

feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless

don't worry when situations get bitter. A bitter situation is a better teacher. The greatest lessons in life cannot only be found in comfort but also in the uncomfortable situations of life

when you do more than you learn, you leave a distinctive notable footprints on earth

There is non who is unfriendly, even the person we may regard as unfriendly has a friend. Our mind is the only limitation and barrier to people

if you are to begin at the beginning of the end, do not wait till the end before you begin. Time and timing is an essential accoutrement in the journey of life.

speak less about what you have done. think more about what you can do

Life is a changing sequence of situations.If you do not change something, something will change you.

the matured understands mistakes as a necessary growth path to maturity

humility must not be equated to mediocrity and cowardice

Shall I confess it, Mr. Hartright? I sadly want a reform in the construction of children. Nature's only idea seems to be to make them machines for the production of incessant noise.

We are God’s inheritance by grace.

Jesus doesn’t lead you out of your day, He leads you into it.

I missed the good old days when phones were sturdy enough to be pounded for emphasis.

I've rung my bells so many times, especially back in the day when chair shots to the head were legal. My goodness, I took so many of those.

The impulse to pursue God originates with God, but the outworking of that impulse is our following hard after Him.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

I think that time moves slower in painting. And maybe that accounts for a lot of the anxiety around painting in the last 40 or 50 years.

When I conform to truth, I do not conform to an abstract principle; I conform to the nature of God.

The rose's rarest essence lives in the thorns.