Let the people think they govern and they will be governed

To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture.

Life is kinder to those who love themselves, because love attracts love and light, and repels and dispels darkness.

Don’t forget: Without fuel, a fire grows cold—and without the “fuel” of the Bible, prayer, and Christian fellowship, our faith grows cold.

Worry is absence of faith.

He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.

The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself.

The one who fails to prepare is preparing to fail.

What shall we do, all of us? All of us oassionate girls who fear crushing the boys we love with our mouths like caverns of teeth, our mushrooming brains, our watermelon hearts?

Sometimes the feeling that life is great just swells up inside you and fills you with joy.

By your father's word has your life been given to me to protect. Now do I give you my life in return, yours to keep until the day I die. --Falon to Shanelle