Curiosity is idle only to those who fail to realize that it may be a very rare and indispensable thing.

There are pastors who won't go to people's sick beds. How can people of God turn their back on the sick, poor and hungry?

We are incredibly heedless in the formation of our beliefs, but find ourselves filled with an illicit passion for them when anyone proposed to rob us of their companionship.

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.