Indeed it is better to postpone, lest either we complete too little by hurrying, or wander too long in completing it.

You can't undo anything you've already done, but you can face up to it. You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

Custom without truth is error grown old.

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain

History is nothing if not far-fetched.

A mystifying sensation of loneliness shook him. Arthur had been alone before, to be sure, but to be alone while surrounded by people, the one sane man in a mad place - that was loneliness.

Mr. Arsenikos said if you knew the constellations you would never get lost. You could always find your way home.

I keep up with everything in terms of health, fitness, nutrition, skin care, hair, nails. Really, everything. I'm an avid reader of every women's health newsletter from every hospital in the country.

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea.

They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they're incredibly political places.

I said to Tennessee, this thing is becoming the Marlon Brando show.

Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.

The magic word for me is pumpernickel. I love pumpernickel. I must have some Russian blood in me because I could just eat pumpernickel and raw onions.

There is nothing so noble and so right as to play our human life well and fitly, nor anything so difficult to learn as how to livethis life well and according to Nature.