"It seems like as soon as you have written something, it dictates a story. So I need to be careful."

“A sound mind in a manly body.”

“Your heart always knows what's important. It always knows how to guide you. It's pure, and trustworthy--though it will never shout to be heard. it will never speak above a whisper. But if you learn how to heed it, how to hear it, you will never feel lost in the world.”

“There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.”

Source : "A Life in Photos: Q&A with Sam Abell". Interview with Jenny Wells, uknow.uky.edu. July 20, 2012.

“Getting divorced was the right decision for me, but it's not the right decision for everyone else.”

“Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.”

“History is a great painter, with the world for canvas, and life for a figure. It exhibits man in his pride, and nature in her magnificence,--Jerusalem bleeding under the Roman, or Lisbon vanishing in flame and earthquake. History must be splendid. Bacon called it the pomp of business. Its march is in high places, and along the pinnacles and points of great affairs.”

“We are all fairies living underneath a leaf of a lily pad.”

“What is the difference between the Christian God, and the gods of the other religions?" He simply, yet profoundly answered, "The main difference is this: The God of Christianity exists.”