All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

There is no such thing as a Christian child: only a child of Christian parents.

The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

You sort of start thinking anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart.

It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

Courage is grace under pressure.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

Nothing is black or white.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

You hear a lot of dialogue on the death of the American family. Families aren't dying. They're merging into big conglomerates.

It is a process of diverting one's scattered forces into one powerful channel.

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good thing for the first time.

Delay always breeds danger. To protract a great design is often to ruin it.