There was a time in my life when I almost thought I could never lose a single duel of chess.
If I set for myself a task, be it so trifling, I shall see it through. How else shall I have confidence in myself to do important things?
. . . good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.
Preceding accomplishment must be desire. Thy desires must be strong and definite.
We found water. We passed into a more fertile country where were grass and fruit. We found the trail to Babylon because the soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, 'What can I do who am but a slave?
Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know?
A lean purse is easier to cure than to endure.
Christianity is Christ because there isn't anything else. There is no atonement that somehow can be detached from who the Lord Jesus is. There is no grace that can be attached to you transferred from Him. All there is, is Christ and your soul.
I've been taking longer to write stories lately.
Songs are the pulse of a nation's heart. A fever chart of its health.
I think it's a fallacy that the harder you practice the better you get.