A victim to certain obscure forms of gout, he was in character neither stupid, nor inhuman, but he suffered from the usual drawbacks of his class, - too much money, and too few ideas.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be happy even if the present was painful. He would allow himself dreams.

Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose

Nothing is easier than to get peaceful people to renounce violence, even when they provide no concrete ways to prevent violence from others.

But I think you can make fun of anything as long as it's funny enough.

If you can lie, you can act, and if you can lie to crazy girlfriends, you can act under pressure.

For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.

I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.

The player can only compete with the best internationally when they've committed themselves to this goal. They have to be properly supported until that point.

I think women are much stronger than men in society. We take more risks than they do in general.

All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.