Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.

Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

If you do what is bad, Lay upon your knees and call upon HIM, and he will guide you in the right way.

The importance and unimportance of the self cannot be exaggerated.

You had been a paper boy to me all these years - two dimensions as a character on the page and two different, but still flat, dimensions as a person. But that night you turned out to be real.

As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

There's no fury more righteous than that of a sinner accused of the wrong sin.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

The greatest achievement to any human being is to love God, yourself, and others.

Fantasies aren't reality, I know, I know, I know. Except when they are. Except when you make them into reality.

If you and I have not seen God, we cannot bear witness to God.

Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.