For one's own work, thoughts and observation are not enough, we need the comfort and blessing and guidance of a higher power, and that is something anyone who is at all serious and who longs to lift up his soul to the light is sure to recognize and experience. Pining for God works like leaven on dough.

So I have a horror of success.

If you hear a voice within you say ,you cannot paint,' then by all means paint. And that voice will be silenced.

As for my next book, I am going to hold myself from writing it till I have it impending in me: grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall.

The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before.

The world belongs to those who set out to conquer it armed with self confidence and good humour.

Have Jesus always for your patron, His Cross for a mast on which you must spread your resolutions as a sail. Your anchor shall be a profound confidence in Him, and you shall sail prosperously.

Hold it more important to have the players' confidence than their affection.

I would certainly use my voice to try and avoid anything that undermines confidence, so that parents are using vaccines fully.

The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.

You can live each day in the confidence of God's promises.

Jesus to me is somebody I can think about for security and confidence. Somebody I can revere in terms of bravery and in terms of courage.