“There is no struggle too vast, no odds too overwhelming, for even should we fail - should we fall - we will know that we have lived.”

“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”

“We are the wise.Do not envy us—We who are too wise to draw nearthe fireLest we get burned;We who are too wise to loveLest love should vanish and we behurt.We are the wise.Do not envy us our wisdom—We who are too wise to liveLest we should die.”

“We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.”

“Dear America,I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana...You probably already know that we talk funny and listen to strange music and eat things you'd probably hire an exterminator to get out of your yard. We dance even if there's no radio. We drink at funerals. We talk too much and laugh too loud and live too large and, frankly,we're suspicious of others who don't.”

“If I had a thousand pounds China should have it- if I had a thousand lives, China should have them. No! Not China, but Christ. Can we do too much for Him? Can we do enough for such a precious Saviour?”