His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.

The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.

It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.

The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot

Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

You cannot be named. To define is to confine.

I set a high standard for myself.

The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.

All forms of landscape are autobiographical.

Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?

The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'

I think it's kind of crazy that we're still calling comedians "female comedians." That seems more like a sneak attack.

Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.

And, for an unsurpassed double whammy, there is talking about eating while you are eating with friends.

Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world.