One painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar.

Great poetry needs no interpreter other than a responsive heart.

For one wild, glad moment we snapped the chain that binds us to earth, and joining hands with the winds we felt ourselves divine.

the bible gives me a deep comforting sense that (things seen are temporal, and things unseen are eternal.

The day is ours, and what the day has shown.

Sometimes you can see things happen right in front of your eyes and still jump to the wrong conclusions.

All you have control over is this moment. Chase it.

Plain horse sense ought to tell us that anything that makes no change in the man who professes it makes no difference to God, either.

The Western musical canon came about not merely by accumulation, but by opposition and subversion, both to the ruling powers on whom composers depended for their livelihoods and to other musics.

I had peanut butter once. It was awful.

A man may be hot but he's not when he's shot cause you can't get a man with a gun.

there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.

Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.

Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file from smallest to tallest? What is the logic in that? What, do tall people burn slower?

The danger of prosperity is that it encourages a false independence.