Time is the explicable raw material of everything.

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one's sympathy the gloom of somebody else.

Worry is evidence of an ill-controlled brain; it is merely a stupid waste of time in unpleasantness.

It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

The real Tragedy is the tragedy of the man who never in his life braces himself for his one supreme effort-he never stretches to his full capacity, never stands up to his full stature.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Knowledge is potential power, but wisdom is the readily available power of the mind.

Only that education deserves emphatically to be termed cultivation of the mind which teaches young people how to begin to think.

The proud hate pride - in others.

There are no 'ifs' in God's Kingdom. His timing is perfect. His will is our hiding place. Lord Jesus, keep me in Your will! Don't let me go mad by poking about outside it.

It is possible to make home a bit of heaven; indeed, I picture heaven to be a continuation of the ideal home

Then I buckled up my shoes, and I started.

When I get into a zone, I obsess and I don't care about anything else. I have to make the work.

Don't waste your time explaining who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

One thing that's clear in the Scriptures is that the nations do not lead people to peace; rather, people lead the nations to peace.

I'm always annoyed about why black people have to bear the brunt of everybody else's contempt. If we are not totally understanding and smiling, suddenly we're demons.