I never truly believed that human business was some serious thing.

As long as you are stationary, no one will complain. Dogs don't bark at parked cars.

Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

Life moves in seasons. You cannot always reap, as there comes a season when you must sow to later reap.

The contemplative life not only does not exclude, but requires, the active life.

According to God's book, there is "a time to weep and a time to laugh" (Ecclesiastes 3:4). The surest sign that our culture is in deep doo-doo is that we are increasingly sure that this is a time to weep and increasingly doubtful that it is a time to laugh.

The changing thing begins with only the potential to change, but it needs to be acted on by other things outside if that potential is to be made actual. Otherwise it cannot change.

Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.

Any time you go into a new environment, you have to learn a new system, there are adjustments you have to make.

I'm not anxious to be anywhere other than where I am right now.

You think when you wake up in the mornin yesterday don't count. But yesterday is all that does count. What else is there? Your life is made out of the days it's made out of. Nothin else.

To Tanta Yanns the clothes in fashion when she was young represented God's final say on human apparel. All change since then came from the style book of the devil.