Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it's twenty-three.
Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another, and by and by they meet.
There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.
If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.
It is true that we may desire much more. But let us use what we have, and God will give us more.
The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life. '
The future is a bright as the promises of God.
There's something really special for a young person to sit in an audience and discover somebody, and it's rare to do because so much of a movie's economics are based on pre-existing actors or actresses.
I barely knew I wanted to be an artist. I liked my art classes and painting was fun, I guess, but I didn't realize that seeing the country was going to inspire me to further explore that. . . but that's what it did.
The road ahead of you is long, dark, and, I very much fear, bloodstained. I also very much fear that you will take us all down that road. But you must live to reach the end of it.
I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.