If a ship has been sunk, I can't bring it up. If it is going to be sunk, I can't stop it. I can use my time much better working on tomorrow's problem than by fretting about yesterday's. Besides, if I let those things get me, I wouldn't last long.
The waste basket is a writer's best friend.
Nature is a volume of which God is the author.
Discontent is the first step in progress. No one knows what is in him till he tries, and many would never try if they were not forced to.
You have to take it as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.
God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.
Art for art's sake.
Prayer is exhaling the spirit of man and inhaling the spirit of God.
Look for opportunity. You can't wait for it to knock on the door. ... You might not be home.
He was one of those men who possess almost every gift, except the gift of the power to use them.
Magic lives in curves, not angles.
Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
A prudent wife is from the Lord.
Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
He who fears death cannot enjoy life.
There is no such thing as something for nothing.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
That kind of so-called housekeeping where they have six Bibles and no cork-screw.
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.