Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

Commemoration of Thomas Bray, Priest, Founder of SPCK, 1730 Faith is not so much belief about God as it is total, personal trust in God, rising to a personal fellowship with God that is stronger than anxiety and guilt, loneliness and all manner of disaster. The Christian's faith in Christ is trust in a Living Person, once crucified, dead, and buried, and now living forevermore. Call it, if you will, an assumption that ends as an assurance, or an experiment that ends as an experience, Christian faith is in fact a commitment that ends as a communion.

Now the trumpet summons us again -- not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need -- not as a call to battle, though embattled we are -- but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out, "rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation" -- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty and war itself.

The world will never starve for want of wonders, but for want of wonder.

Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving from where you left them to where you can't find them.

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

There are risks and costs to a program of action, but they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

The only limits are, as always, those of vision.

If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act i. Sc. 2.

Sometimes I wish life had a fast-forward button.

Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.

The cat has too much spirit to have no heart.

If you depend on others to make you happy, you will be endlessly disappointed.

There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass.

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.