Easily mistaken, it is not about a love for adversity, it is about knowing a strength and a faith so great that adversity, in all its adverse manifestations, hardly even exists.

When you have wit of your own, it's a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.

If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.

There is more to joy than looking only for affirmation; refusing to be challenged is the only bigotry.

When we look for success, it should be for the sole purpose of boasting sincerely in Christ. There's no other reason for it. Success is only worth it when the more intense it gets for you, the more you find yourself bragging for his glory rather than your own.

I've been able to sleep with my eyes open ever since I started watching baseball." "Drinking is such a necessity to human life that people cannot fathom an individual who, like a child confined to a church pew, gets little enjoyment out of it and would rather do other things.