A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.

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.

The present is the necessary product of all the past the necessary cause of all the future.

I once believed that I possessed creative talent, but I have given up this idea; a woman must not desire to compose — there has never yet been one able to do it. Should I expect to be the one?

Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

I could never lead a Bible study; I don't know Scripture that well.

He who does not get fun and enjoyment out of every day...needs to reorganize his life

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

So, "normal" is really what society dictates as normal and if we're born in that world, we would see that as normal. But if you think about it for a second, is it really?

I'm proud of my works. But there's not one thing that I can put my finger on and say, "That is my greatest achievement. That's my proudest moment." That's so tricky to me.

I will continue to find ways to help poor people find a job, get a job, and learn someday to own the job.

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.