The grace of God is infinite and beyond our ability to measure. His grace has no beginning and therefore no end.
Reward is its own virtue.
Society's the mother of convention.
Contentment is the result of a limited imagination.
Where there's a will there's a detective story.
I have always hated biography, and more especially, autobiography. If biography, the writer invariably finds it necessary to plaster the subject with praises, flattery and adulation and to invest him with all the Christian graces. If autobiography, the same plan is followed, but the writer apologizes for it.
I'm just the same age I've always been.
I've always thought my flowers had souls.
There are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action - to try to balance out those effects.
I want to be a saint, a real saint while I am young, for there is so much work to do.
You don't win by being good. You win with hard work and sacrifice. Without that, skill is just potential.