Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.

If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

All men desire peace, but very few desire those things that make for peace.

Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

Let all things be loved for the sake of Jesus, but Jesus for His own sake.

Wherever you go, there you are.

Let temporal things be in the use, eternal things in the desire.

The Lord bestows his blessings there, where he finds the vessels empty.

God often grants in a moment what He has long denied.

Greater is Your care for me than all the care I am able to take from myself.

At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.

I always drink at lunchtime. It helps my imagination.

I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.

My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization.

I always found it really funny when actors would come offstage, smoking cigarettes and swearing at each other.

But I guessed she would never stop wanting more for me, more from me. Maybe that's what mothers did.

Ill never be as good an actor as I want to be....but I'll be good.

Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.

Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease.