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Many a man that couldn't direct you to the drug store on the corner when he was 3 will get a respectful hearing when age has further impaired his mind.

To serve is beautiful, but only if it is done with joy and a whole heart and a free mind.

The knowledge of Christ's love for us should cause us to love Him in such a way that it is demonstrated in our attitude, conduct, and commitment to serve God. Spiritual maturity is marked by spiritual knowledge being put into action.

Pure truth, like pure gold, has been found unfit for circulation because men have discovered that it is far more convenient to adulterate the truth than to refine themselves.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

A best seller was a book which somehow sold well simply because it was selling well.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure… than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.



You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered.


Respect for the fragility and importance of an individual life is still the mark of an educated man.


Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You don't buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.

A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest pain is to love, but love in vain.
