You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.
...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.
Of all base passions fear is most accurs'd.
Being an author, writing a book was great fun. Publishing and marketing, not so fun.
It is necessary for us to have an imperfect freedom so that we can give ... if we cannot give anything to God, we do not have a share in his Spirit, who by his very nature is Gift.
Mother, you have my father much offended.
We can strive to put the past behind us, serve God to the best of our ability now, and look ahead to the glorious future!
Genius is play, and man's capacity for achieving genius is infinite, and many may achieve genius only through play.
There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.
Those who fight against God's people are fighting against God, and fighters against God will not prevail.
If you're not making someone else's life better, then you're wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.
Will you shed your tears for the souls of the nations?
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds that sees into the bottom of my grief?
What are you doing sister? / Killing swine.
We learn from history as much as a rabbit learns from an experiment that's performed upon it.
Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.- Lucullus (Act III, scene 1)
Nothing is so common as the desire to be remarkable.
The advantage of being married a long time was that one could argue without the necessity of the other's actual, physical presence.
We know what we are, but not what we may be.
Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct.
I don't know about you, but I only have one life, and I don't want to spend it in a sewer of injustice.
