Focusing on values does not simplify your life. It gives meaning and direction-and a lot more complexity.
Avoid the eye that discovers with rapidity the bad, and is slow to see the good.
As the interest of man, so his God; as his God, so he.
Beware of biting jests; the more truth they carry with them, the greater wounds they give, the greater smarts they cause, and the greater scars they leave behind them.
You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.
Who partakes in another's joys is a more humane character than he who partakes in his griefs.
And still, laughter is akin to weeping.
As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that His is the noblest service in which any human being can spend or be spent; and that, if God gave me back my life to be lived over again, I would without one quiver of hesitation lay it on the altar to Christ, that He might use it as before in similar ministries of love, especially among those who have never yet heard the name of Jesus. . . God gave His best, His Son, to me; and I give back my best, my all, to Him.
Every president feels that he has gotten unfair, dishonest coverage from the news media.
We artists allow others to see through our windows.
War will exist as long as there's a food chain.