The man whom society will not forgive nor restore is driven into recklessness.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

The trick in life is learning how to deal with it.

But men are so full of greed today, they'll sell anything for a little piece of money.

Little Alice, all hollowed out, so easy to smash into a million little pieces.

I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.

I grew up as a country boy.

Moral autonomy appears when the mind regards as necessary an ideal that is independent of all external pressures.

For me, life is writing and I can do it anywhere. It doesn't matter where I am. I listen. I write. I live.

I have a lot of survivor insticts, and I know when to quit. I know when to go forward it my life, but not everybody does.

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

Ive never been the type of guy thats ever needed a lot of things or any fancy things, but my lifelong goal has always been to have a piece of land and a house.