Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment, but in its time and place is quite as proper as prayer.

It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.

Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other.

Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.

God is the only sure foundation on which the mind can rest.

America is a land where a citizen will cross the ocean to fight for democracy - and wont cross the street to vote in a national election.

So, how can I try to be someone I didn't really even know?

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

Freedom is the fundamental character of the will, as weight is of matter... That which is free is the will. Will without freedom is an empty word.

I swore under oath with the government not to give the whereabouts of my location.

And not only did this great consolidated ecclesiasticism assume to lord it over men's earthly treasures, but they lorded it over men's minds, prescribing what men should think and read and write.

It's a little uncomfortable doing love scenes in armor, but, you know, when the heat's on, the heat's on.

When a book is read an irrevocable thing happens — a murder, followed by an imposture. The story in the mind murders the story on the page, and takes its place.

Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

I'm sure Putnam is right that there's been a decline in certain kinds of organizations like bowling leagues. But people participate in communities in other ways.