There’s nothing quite like the sound of a baseball hitting a wooden bat

The welfare state is the oldest con game in the world. First you take people’s money away quietly, and then you give some of it back to them flamboyantly

Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how

You start a question, and it’s like starting a stone. You sit quietly on the top of a hill; and away the stone goes, starting others.

Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.

We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

When I was growing up, I wasn’t an extrovert. If anything, I was an introverted kid and a very average pupil at school. I was very quiet.

It’s quite fitting that Slash is getting a star on the very street Axl Rose will one day be sleeping on.

People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain of their lot nor passively dream of some distant ship coming in. Rather, they visualize in their minds that they are not quitters; they will not allow life’s circumstances to push them down and hold them under.

At midnight it will end, quietly, suddenly, totally. Forever. But the hours between now and then are opportunities with eternal possibilities.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.

Truly, God works in mysterious ways. The wheels of His mercy and justice move quietly, but they do move.