The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will not allow quietness.

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

We fundamentalists are a pack of mood-loving showoffs. I'm sure the Minor Prophets would have found subject for correction.

His enthusiasm and willingness to use what he learned made him get ahead in Spanish.

Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.

It takes a while for revelry to turn to reverence, and much repetition of truth to eventual turn young zeal into habitual channels for good.

The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot

Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

You have chosen the path of darkness.

Imagine a world full of love.

Having an intelligent secretary does not get rid of the need to read, write, and draw, etc. In a well functioning world, tools and agents are complementary.

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!

Justice for some people is an evil for others. Good intentions, kindness, and hope will not necessarily make people happy.

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

I love Sherlock Holmes. There's still an awful lot to steal from Conan Doyle. But within a tradition you can work in many different ways.

As actors, we are so privileged to do what we do and to give to the world and to choose the subject we want to say to the world.

At an everyday level I would reckon myself more than fortunate.