The ability to keep a cool head in an emergency, maintain poise in the midst of excitement, and to refuse to be stampeded are true marks of leadership.

Heaven did not seem to be my home

Every person that you meet knows something you don't

High school games would just as big a deal to me as any major league game.

She wished she could help David to seem more legitimate. She wished she could do something to keep everything from being so undignified. Life seemed so uselessly extravagant.

To be a Pharisee is not to understand kingdom principles

I think being very thin has had a lot to do with how I've been cast.

Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

i dunno," i said, "but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer

Don't make decisions based on the fear.

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.