A fondness for reading, properly directed, must be an education in itself.

Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.

Oh! Do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.

If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach.

I will not talk of my own happiness, ' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

Yet some happiness must and would arise, from the very conviction, that he did suffer.

None fills the void like the company of a true friend.

Getting information off the Internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant.

Everybody experiences far more than he understands. Yet it is experience, rather than understanding, that influences behavior.

Spread ya legs, arch your back. Go up and down, and make it clap.

The best way to have peace is to always be prepared to fight a way.

To be saved is only this-salvation from our own selfishness.

When some systems are stuck in a dangerous impasse, randomness and only randomness can unlock them and set them free.

Take the craziest dream you ever had and go after it. Make it a reality. I don't want you to dream, I want you to do.

The biggest revolutions are the ones that happen in-between our ears.

The Lord will never permit me or any other man who stands as president of this church to lead you astray.