There is a tyrannical element in all fanaticism, an element which makes opposition a torment.

Every man is bound to leave a story better than he found it.

Conviction is the conscience of the mind.

But no man has a monopoly of conscience.

Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died.

Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.

It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.

The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope.

Some days some times are remembered by me, in life’s all moments they are cherished by me

Doing more for others makes your life more abundant.

A man faced death, but when death drew back forgot it until the next time.

Honesty rare as a man without self-pity Kindness as large and plain as a prairie wind.

A painting without something disturbing in it – what's that?.

I love insult, it's always honest.

It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool.

Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.

When you get ready to vote, make sure you know what you are doing.

I'm a guitarist by background. That's what I used to do for sessions when I was younger and that sort of thing. We have several pianos in the house and I tend to just sit and fiddle around.