Ingratitude's a weed of every clime, It thrives too fast at first, but fades in time.

Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.

As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air

Dissensions, like small streams, are first begun, Scarce seen they rise, but gather as they run: So lines that from their parallel decline, More they proceed the more they still disjoin.

I see the right, and I approve it too,Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.

Dear gentlemen, let me die a natural death.

Where billows never break, nor tempests roar.

All change comes from deepening your understanding of the salvation of Christ and living out the changes that understanding creates in your heart.

A stupid man behaves stupidly, not because he wants to, or tries to, or is motivated to, but simply because he is what he is.

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

I've been producing for 13 years. I've made a string of joyful movies with positive messages about comedy, love and romance.

The love of a girl can make a man stay on when he should go,Just tryin' to build a peaceful life where love is free to grow.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

Life forces enough final decisions on us. We should have the sense to avoid as many of the unnecessary ones as we can.

If we are not trusted, we have no business.

I was very afraid to write a novel - it was a dream for a very long time, and it was one of the few things that I was afraid to try.

If there is a book you want to read but isn't written yet,write it.