I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money to finance this earnest work and then I chucked it out.

My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark Twain Earnest Hemingway Jack London Harriett Beecher Stowe Pearl Buck Charles Dickens Rudyard Kipling Alfred Lord Tennyson to name a few.

The doubt of an earnest thoughtful patient and laborious mind is worthy of respect. In such doubt may be found indeed more faith than in half the creeds.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

All who call on God in true faith earnestly from the heart will certainly be heard and will receive what they have asked and desired.

In God's world for those who are in earnest there is no failure. No work truly done no word earnestly spoken no sacrifice freely made was ever made in vain.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

We want deeper sincerity of motive a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.

There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English but with not one recognizable syllable.