“The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world.”

“The future can not blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past.”

“All life is theatre,' he said. 'We are all actors, you and I, in a play which nobody wrote and which nobody will see. We have no audience but ourselves....”

“You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your best in the opposite direction...”

“Your father... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner.”

“Open for sun, closed for rain, that's the poor man's weathervane.”

“Is there shame in living off your fellow man or being unable to take care ofyourself? You bet. But a person whos willing to work and pay their own waycan at least take pride in that even if they ca...”

“A true encounter with the living God will break the spirit of religiosity, empty man of his pride and conform even the most vile and wicked into a living vessel for His glory.”

“He has come to the most dreadful conclusion a literary man can come to, the conclusion that the ordinary view is the right one. It is only the last and wildest kind of courage that can stand on a t...”

“I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.”

“Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.”

“We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents.”

“The sins of women and children, domestic servants and the weak, the poor and the ignorant, are the sins of the husbands and fathers, the masters, the strong and the rich and the educated.”

“I have always derived indescribable pleasure from leading a decent woman to the edge of sin and leaving her there to live between the temptation and the fear of that sin.”

“Told often enough that they are the source of sin, women may well begin feeling guilty as they accept the necessity for penance. Taught effectively enough that they are irrelevant to the important ...”