Perhaps because technology so dominates our existence, more and more it seems that the young reader is captivated by fantasy.

This is the world. Half of it is lit by the sun and the other half remains in darkness. It is the same with life. There is good and bad and it's our duty to remain in the light, be good.

He was too smitten by his second wife and the sons she produced easily and regularly at eighteen-month intervals to bother too much about a daughter.

And anyway, it’s not as though I’ll never see Mum again, is it?

The choice to lead is nurtured by the willingness to rise above challenges of life.

When a man is on the road to power he buys everyone a drink. Once elected he tries to close the saloons.

I've been playing against older and stronger competition my whole life. It has made me a better tennis player and able to play against this kind of level despite their strength and experience.

CUI BONO? [Latin] What good would that do "me"?

None of us are going to have perfect lives. Our own vision of what we think is good maybe different from what He [God] thinks. And we forget that. We think we know what's best and we don't.

Everything I have said or done is in the hands of God. I commit myself to Him! I certify to you that I would do or say nothing against the Christian faith.

But it is like a running blaze on a plain, like a flash of lightning in the clouds. We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!

When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.

When you win, you can afford to be gracious, you can afford to have a little more mercy.