Don't sacrifice the permanent on the altar of the immediate.

The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

When gratitude dies on the altar of a man's heart, that man is well-nigh hopeless.

The greatest ability is dependability.

It is never right to do wrong in order to get a chance to do right.

What you love and what you hate reveal what you are.

Don't ask God to give you a light burden. Ask Him to give you strong shoulders to carry a heavy burden.

The test of your character is what it takes to stop you.

A man is a fool who leans on the arm of flesh when he can be supported by the arm of Omnipotence.

It is wonderful when God saves a drunkard which He sometimes does, but it is more wonderful still when God saves little children before they become drunkards, libertines, and degenerates.

No nation has ever prospered or been blessed like the colored people in the South.

Mathilde and Lotto held hands in the taxi going to brunch, communicating, not speaking.

In a country where children are unhappy, everyone is unhappy!

...Right now there's a pair of bad cops on their way out here to shoot me." "You don't know that." "Yeah, you're right," Stranahan said. "They're probably just collecting Toys for Tots. Now go.

The outlook of the world today is for the greatest era of commercial expansion in history. The rest of the world will become better customers.

Professor Snape was forcing them to research antidotes. They took this one seriously, as he had hinted that he might be poisoning one of them before Christmas to see if their antidote worked.

With vivid words your just conceptions grace, Much truth compressing in a narrow space; Then many shall peruse, but few complain, And envy frown, and critics snarl in vain.

I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.

Sometimes you have to be worn out and burnt out to become authentic and original.

We women talk too much, but even then we don't tell half what we know

You have to be careful of the advice you take.