Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God.
There was never any reason to believe in any innate superiority of the male, except his superior muscle.
There are only five things you can do in baseball: run, throw, catch, hit, and hit with power.
The sport I love has taken me around the world and shown me many things.
No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.
Brevity is the soul of wit.
The philosopher is Nature's pilot - and there you have our difference; to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.
Here's a sigh to those who love me And a smile to those who hate; And whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for every fate.
None think the great unhappy but the great.
Who knows if the gods above will add tomorrow's span to this day's sum?
In any evolutionary process, even in the arts, the search for novelty becomes corrupting.
Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
Longevity is having a chronic disease and taking care of it.
Helplessness becomes prayer the moment that you go to Jesus and speak candidly and confidently with him about your needs. This is to believe.
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day in, day out with people one does not like, and sell oneself to chaperone and correct them?
I read one psychologist's theory that said, "Never strike a child in your anger." When could I strike him? When he is kissing me on my birthday? When he's recuperating from measles? Do I slap the Bible out of his hand on Sunday?
All men would be cowards if they durst.
Oh my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.
Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.