The self is made, not given

The best lives and stories are made up of minute particulars that somehow are also universal and of use to others as well as oneself.

Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.

Impossible situations TEST you and PROVE Him

Great stones they lay upon his chest until he plead aye or nay. They say he give them but two words. "More weight," he says. And died.

People think you have to go through a lot of changes to become a soul singer, You just have to go through life.

I've been to the Reading festival twice before-as a punter, though I stayed backstage in the hospitality tent!

'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.

The early Church was married to poverty, prisons and persecutions. Today, the church is married to prosperity, personality, and popularity.

A group of followers has strength because of its numbers. A following has power because of its beliefs.

Unhappy women are given to protecting their sensitiveness by cynical gossip, by whining, by high-church and new-thought religions, or by a fog of vagueness.

Factors in the art of warfare are: First, calculations; second, quantities; third, logistics; fourth, the balance of power; and fifth, the possibility of victory is based on the balance of power.