A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Fight Is Excuse Love Not Refuse

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing I could ever do.

This aint the life that I'm used to, reintroduced to people I've been introduced to.

When my grandfather died, I started adopting some of his accents, to sort of remind myself of him. A homage. He was a war hero, and he was really great with his hands.

Let's share our abundance and make our country stronger.

A thing that most creatives don't do well is that you've gotta learn to listen.

The most powerful person in the world is the story teller. The storyteller sets the vision, values and agenda of an entire generation that is to come.