The fear which troubles the life of man from its deepest depths, suffuses all with the blackness of death, and leaves no delight clean and pure.
It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.
Grow your courage by remembering each day is a gift.
One can talk good and shower down roses, but it's the receiver that has to walk through the thorns, and all its false expectations.
I looked long and hard for the paper roses! I found the reddest red ribbon, and a little golden card! We were all there together, many of us, in the same place; but I was the only one who found the pa...
It is man and not the Bible that needs correcting. Greater and more careful scholarship has shown that apparent contradictions were caused by incorrect translations, rather than divine inconsistencies...
Mother is far too clever to understand anything she does not like.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
Now, 75 years [after ], in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
Yesterday I was clever, so I took the glory for me. Today He makes me wise, so I give the glory to Thee
When you are fitted in a racing car and you race to win, second or third place is not enough.