In New York people don't go to the theatre - they go to see hits.
If success attend me, grant me humility; If failure, resignation to Thy will.
God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours.
If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?
I'd rather be in the heart of Africa in the will of God, than on the throne of England, out of the will of God.
If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all.
People talk of the sacrifice I have made in spending so much of my life in Africa. It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege.
Pay heed to the tales of old wives. It may well be that they alone keep in memory what it was once needful for the wise to know.
And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.
If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
I want to be something special. I want to be known as a great female basketballer.