Our children await Christmas presents like politicians getting in election returns: there's the Uncle Fred precinct and the Aunt Ruth district still to come in.

Now the essence the very spirit of Christmas is that we first make believe a thing is so and lo it presently turns out to be so.

Any man today who returns from work sinks into a chair and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.

A revival does two things. First it returns the Church from her backsliding and second it causes the conversion of men and women and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

Experience has taught me never to trust a policeman. Just when you think one's all right he turns legit.

You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

Strange is it not? That of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set I go into the other room and read a book.

When I was a teen I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.