The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.
The creative process is a cocktail of instinct, skill, culture and a highly creative feverishness.
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.
Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk
Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.
If you are ambitious you can have a moment of glory but it will most likely be temporary. But talent always finds its way out.
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.