I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

I am the chosen of the Lord, for who He loveth, so doeth He chastiseth. But I be durn if He dont take some curious ways to show it, seems like.

Yet the motion of the saw has not faltered, as though it and the arm functioned in a tranquil conviction that rain was an illusion of the mind.

It's like it ain't so much what a fellow does, but it's the way the majority of folks is looking at him when he does it.

It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.

... a man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense.

It's been my Buckingham Palace, my White House, my Taj Mahal, so coming here today as a real member is - well, it's a big deal.

The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.

There are certain people in your life and work where the relationship is more important than who is right or wrong.

Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly: the chances are, it's holding you, too.

Your reactions to your enemy can hurt you more than your enemy can.

You can't do God's will and satisfy everyone.

We played soccer a lot with our friends and at school. We weren't on an official team or anything, but we'd definitely be up for it in gym or in after-school pickup games where we live.

Every perversion has survived many tests of its capabilities.

All things lead us to our innermost truth. That is their purpose. That is the purpose of Life itself. Life is truth, revealing Itself to Itself.

Once you reach a good level in tennis it fills you with a lot of motivation. I hope I can do it for a long time.