I must confess, as the experience of my own soul, that the expectation of loving my friends in heaven principally kindles my love to them while on earth.

This life was not intended to be the place of our perfection, but the preparation for it.

I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.

Keep up a humble sense of your own faults, and that will make you compassionate to others

The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?

Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

Lay siege to your sins, and starve them out by keeping away the food and fuel which is their maintenance and life.

If they can see you love them, you can say anything to them.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

You are not likely to see any general reformation, till you procure family reformation.

Don't judge me by my appearance, by my looks, My Soul has a beautiful decorated Grave

Be kind to all pets and animals because they will be kind back to you.

Truth is ugly that is why we don't like it

But I've a rendezvous with Death At midnight in some flaming town, When Spring trips north again this year, And I to my pledged word am true, I shall not fail that rendezvous.

You concentrate on what you are doing, to do the best job you can, to stay out of a serious situation. That’s the way the X-1 was.

Most writers seem to prefer the morning, or they feel at their best in the morning. Ideas are popping into your head while you're in the shower. And that's true for me, as well.

It would have to be connected with performance art somehow, either in the front of the house or the back. I was myopic about this from fourth grade on

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

You're thinking I'm a hopelessly romantic idiot. And you know what? You're right.

We may be very busy, we may be very 'efficient', but we will also be truly 'effective' only when we begin with the end in mind.