When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

Your mockers will only have your attention only if you give them your attention

What a man needs in gardening is a cast-iron back, with a hinge in it.

Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.

Old folks live on memory, young folk live on hope.

I don't know whether schooling would have helped me get farther along in music at this time. I doubt it would have.

One, don't wait for inspiration, just start the damned thing. Two, once you begin, keep on until the end. How do you know how the story should begin until you find out where it's going?

I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.

She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy night, contained strange and terrible things and she was it.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again,- The eternal years of God are hers; But Error, wounded, writhes with pain, And dies among his worshippers.