We have brought nothing into the world, so we cannot take anything out of it either.' There are no U-Hauls behind hearses.

One of the great uses of Twitter and Facebook will be to prove at the Last Day that prayerlessness was not from lack of time.

In EVERY situation and EVERY circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God.

Life is too short, too precious, too painful to waste on worldly bubbles that burst

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

If God's love for his children is to be measured by our health, wealth, and comfort in this life, God hated the apostle Paul.

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him.

The deepest and most enduring happiness is found only in God. Not from God, but in God.

Our deeds are not the basis of our salvation, they are the evidence of our salvation. They are not foundation, they are demonstration.

Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself.

There was something about Maria Graham that you could believe in – a slice of home. If not unique in her travelling, she was at least extraordinary.

The fact of knowing how to read is nothing the whole point is knowing what to read.

I think when one has talent one finally breaks through; so don't pass up any opportunity to do some work.

Scared of a bunch of water? Then get out the rain. Order a rapper for lunch, and spit out the chain.

Now the Sirens have a still more fatal weapon than their song, namely their silence... someone might possibly have escaped from their singing; but from their silence, certainly never.

I put myself in front of people who can say yes to me, and I deliver value first.

Exceptional people deserve special concessions.

When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care.

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom