A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.

There are three things in the world that deserve no mercy, hypocrisy, fraud, and tyranny.

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.

This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.

Marriage is not a union merely between two creatures - it is a union between two spirits; and the intention of that bond is to perfect the nature of both.

What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.

To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.

There is a past which is gone forever, but there is a future which is still our own.

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance.

The one single factor that determines society’s success is the percentage of change-makers within it.

There are no atheists in the foxholes of Bataan.

I think people like feeling miserable just as much as they like feeling happy.

I have a great career, and no matter what I am doing, a big blockbuster movie... or my small documentary, David Letterman will call and say I would like you to sit on my couch.

If I wanted to lie, or if we wanted to lie, if we wanted to exaggerate, I wouldn't use my daughter to do so. I could easily buy other people to do it.

Come on, it's almost midnight. Let's go watch them cut the cake.

You are the only warmth in my heart. The only sunshine my winter has ever known. (Talon)

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world.

A lot can be done, but not everyone immediately succeeds in everything.