Most of the big money people don't know what would interest an audience if you did it. They only know what interested the audience last time.
For a good man fame is always a problem.
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt
He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.
Hate is a lack of imagination.
People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations
Failure is less attributable to either insufficiency of means or impatience of labours than to a confused understanding of the thing actually to be done.
Prayers are offered up daily - without charge. . . Refreshments are served when demanded.
We pretend with a spiritual life we don't live, a peace we don't experience and a holiness and commitment we don't possess. . . . We will never make any progress in becoming more like Jesus unless we permit God to cut us open, search our hearts, try us, know our thoughts and then change us from the inside. Only then can we become real according to the Word of God.
People only see what they are prepared to see. If you look for what is good and what you can be grateful for you will find it everywhere.