I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying

The stomach is not the only vital organ that hungers.

Great things were going to happen in my life, and I had to do my part by preparing myself and being ready.

(LBJ) had what a journalist calls “a genius for analogy”— made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate

Sometimes the biggest gain in productive energy will come from cleaning the cobwebs, dealing with old business, and clearing the desks—cutting loose debris that's impeding forward motion.

I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty.

When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

I pulled the trigger twice, cutting off his protests, and Finn joined my lover on the floor.

If you want the Lord to hide your sins, then don't talk to people about what kind of virtues you have. For as we relate to our virtues, so God relates to our sins.

Tomorrow will give us something to think about

Revenge be the dish I serve to cats cold.