"Self-acceptance has been a blessed by-product of middle age."

“I'd much rather see Richard Pryor or Jackie Mason in a theater than in a club.”

“Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.”

Source : Martha Finley (1876). “Elsie's Motherhood: A Sequel to "Elsie's Womanhood,"”, p.297

“We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.”

“I've been sleeping through my life Now I'm waking up And I want to stand in the sunshine I have never been ecstatic Had a flower but it never bloomed In the darkness of my wasted youth It was hiding in the shadows Learning to become invisible Uncover me”

Source : Song: Sunshine, Album: In Exile Deo, 2004

“In the realm of science, all attempts to find any evidence of supernatural beings, of metaphysical concepts, as God, immortality, infinity, etc have thus far failed, and if we are honest, we must confess that in science there exists no God, no immortality, no soul or mind, as distinct from the body.”

Source : 1941 In the American Freeman, Jul.

“This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven.”

“You can read me like a book. If I'm not having a good time, which is very rare, then you'll know.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“How can I progress on the Way thanks to every day difficulties.”