It's a useful rule in Anglo-American communications that the English should double, and the Americans halve, the number of words they would normally employ.

When one married a man, it was clear to me, one married also the sink and the stove.

There are two roads to every place, and the wise man chooses the pleasant one.

In every art the desire to practice it precedes both the full ability to do so and the possession of something worthwhile to express by its means.

Retracing the various episodes of one's life, one is disconcerted to discover that one was not as noble as one thought oneself at the time.

These last years are as important as any that have gone before, nor will any other of our years vitiate or excuse them. The struggle continues.

New day, new grace and new hope.

Words are like food. They contain information that either releases and liberates and creates possibilities and development or locks you into unhealthy patterns you can’t change.

There is no other name that mankind can be saved accept in the name of Jesus Christ, the saviour of the world.

I'm not the kind of artist that wants to get a sound, refine it, and do it 'til I'm 50 so that it's the purest amber of my one way.

I'm always a little innately shy when I first talk to a girl, and I think I always will be! But I think that's a good thing. You don't want to lose that.

Alexia gave in to his demanding touch, but only, of course, because he sounded so pathetic. It had nothing, whatsoever to do with her own quickening heartbeat.

Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning.

Religion dies hard in the Irish.

All the laws made for the betterment of workers' lives have their origin with the workers. Hours are shortened,wages go up, conditions are better----only if the workers protest

There is a peacefulness, an air of reflection, about a rocking-chair that attaches to no other moving object.