Ideas are the factors that lift civilization. They create revolutions. There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

At some time, here or hereafter, every account must be settled, and every debt paid in full.

There is more dynamite in an idea than in many bombs.

We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home.

In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation.

Reach up as far as you can, and God will reach down all the way.

The teacher should use illustrations for the better teaching of the lesson, and never to fill up time, to amuse the class, or to display his own genius.

Good teaching gains its authority from having consistent and repeated support from multiple scriptural sources, and it builds a firm base for our unity and our confidence in Christ.

Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.

The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.

I consider myself to be an inverse paranoid. I always operate as if everything is part of a universal plot to enhance my well-being.

Well, everybody does something, some people race cars, others collect stamps, I find tai chi to be philosophically, aesthetically, physically and spiritually fascinating.

Snow was falling, so much like stars filling the dak trees that one could easily imagine its reason for being was nothing more the prettiness.

I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.

If we have Senators and Congressmen there that can't protect themselves against the evil temptations of lobbyists, we don't need to change our lobbies, we need to change our representatives.