Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.

Typical! I break my neck trying to get here, and I find you peacefully tidying up!

Our God is known for His compassion for the needy; let us be known for it as well.

Life is painful, nasty and short... in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Sometimes a thing that's hard is hard because you're doing it wrong. (Point Omega)

I don't consider myself paranoid at all. I think I see things exactly as they are.

Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.

Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.

This is the purpose of theology. By it my life becomes clearer and more conscious.

How fleeting are all human passions compared with the massive continuity of ducks.

... at no point have I yet found artistic truth and theological truth at variance.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

The hardest assumption to challenge is the one you don't even know you are making.

Funny, how just when you think life can’t possibly get any worse it suddenly does.

He shifted his weight from foot to foot, but it was equally uncomfortable on each.

It's high time you were shown That you really don't know all there is to be known.

Well,” said Stuart, “a misspelled word is an abomination in the sight of everyone.

Because way down deep they know that civilized people have to preserve rare birds.

Even brave men, and D'Arnot was a brave man, are sometimes frightened by solitude.

That's the trouble with loving a wild thing: You're always left watching the door.

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.

The most difficult thing to read is time. Maybe because it changes so many things.

Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves.

If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

The man who sticks it out against his fate shows spirit, but the spirit of a fool.

Try first thyself, and after call in God; For to the worker God himself lends aid.

I love the old way best, the simple way of poison, where we too are strong as men.

Women don't like violence, But when their husbands desert them, that is different.

The little done doth vanish to the mind which forward sees how much remains to do.

There is no bitterness to be compared with that between two people who once loved.

To die with glory, if one has to die at all, is still, I think, pain for the dier.

war made by age and fought by youth while age looked on and applauded and encored.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.

He had no strength for any other war than his own solitary struggle to keep alive.

We prove God by showing active faith, which puts to flight all adverse appearances

Do not confound noise with fame. The man who is remembered, is not always honored.

Sometimes I wanted to peel away all of my skin and find a different me underneath.

Only friends will tell you the truths you need to hear to make your life bearable.

No matter what you do, if your heart is ever true, And his heart was true to Poll.

A good intention does not mean honor. [Fr., A bon entendeur ne faut qu'un parole.]

The Lord forbid that I should be out of debt, as if indeed I could not be trusted.

There is no religion without mysteries. God Himself is the great secret of Nature.

Alfred: Hmf. I suppose you'll take up flying next, like that fellow in Metropolis.

The graceful flowers of innocence are more valuable than the laurel crown of fame.

Right and proof are two crutches for everything bent and crooked that limps along.

As far as I have seen, at school...they aimed at blotting out one's individuality.

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