The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure.

The best ideas will eat at you for days, maybe even weeks, until something, some incident, some impulse, triggers you to finally express them.

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

The only thing more frustrating than slanderers is those foolish enough to listen to them.

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

God tests, but he does not tempt.

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