Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it.

Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

Peace does not lie in getting God to give me other circumstances.

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

Never try to have more faith - just get to know God better. And because God is faithful, the better you know Him, the more you'll trust Him.

The most important task of your life is not what you do, but who you become.

Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.

The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.

The trouble with wedlock is that there's not enough wed and too much lock.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

Life is a foreign language; all men mispronounce it.

Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners: only the unhappy are churlish in deportment.

Religion is an attempt, a noble attempt, to suggest in human terms more-than-human realities.

Be prepared for truth at all hours and in the most fantastic disguises. This is the only safety.

Why do they put the Gideon Bibles only in the bedrooms, where it's usually too late...?

All cities are mad: but the madness is gallant. All cities are beautiful: but the beauty is grim.

God made man merely to hear some praise of what he'd done on those Five Days.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.