Every man through fear mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don’t hoard it. Don’t dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

Inspirations never go in for long engagements they demand immediate marriage to action.

Some persons are very decisive when it comes to avoiding decisions.

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice as well as of virtue to inspire him.

What we believe in our heart, we must declare with our mouth.

Life is same for everyone. The difference is only that some are living by heart and some for only sake of living

The Bible . . . is the only Book that offers man a redemption and points the way out of his dilemmas. It is our one sure guide in an unsure world.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

A lot of people would say, to be truthful is to tell all, every dalliance, every crisis. They might be right on paper, but in practice, it's not a great way to go.

There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the mere intrinsic worth of what they have left us.

I was very fascinated with meteorology at a young age. I lived on the Gulf Coast and hurricanes blew through there. That is the class I failed in college: meteorology.

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that

The man who hath music in his soul will be most in love with the loveliest.

I kissed him once," she whispered. "Well done. What did he do?" "Um..." Deryn sighed. "He woke up.