For we must share, if we would keep, that blessing from above; ceasing to give, we cease to have; such is the law of love.

Nothing is true but Love, nor aught of worth; Love is the incense which doth sweeten earth.

Prayer is not getting man's will done in heaven, but getting God's will done on earth. It is not overcoming God's reluctance but laying hold of God's willingness.

None but God can satisfy the longings of an immortal soul; that as the heart was made for Him, so He only can fill it.

We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.

The sin of pride is the sin of sins; in which all subsequent sins are included, as in their germ; they are but the unfolding of this one.

Sin may be clasped so close, we cannot see its face.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

Language is the amber in which a thousand precious and subtle thoughts have been safely embedded and preserved.

Common sense meant once something very different from that plain wisdom, the common heritage of men, which we now call by this name.

The present is only intelligible in the light of the past.

It was a brave old world.

I play American and World music, Texas style.

I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.

It's easier to hide your light under a bushel than to keep your shady side dark.

Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it.

I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.

Lord knows why they depict death with wings when death is everywhere.

Provide more service than what you get paid for

The spiritual world needs two revolutions: One is to separate God from religion and the other is to separate religion from God! This purification process will make God less human and more universal.

...A long struggle lies in store for me in this field of color.