Ah, what a sweetner of toil is love—love to a dear earthly parent, and still more love to Christ. There is no drudgery in the most menial employment where that is the motive power.

It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that ... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.

I have often noticed that spoiled, petted children, usually have very little love for their parents, or indeed for any one but themselves.

Horace Dinsmore was, like his father, an upright, moral man, who paid an outward respect to the forms of religion, but cared nothing for the vital power of godliness.

Good husbands make good wives.

Holy and pure are the drops that fall, When the young bride goes from her father's hall; She goes unto love yet untried and new- She parts from love which hath still been true.

He's God....and his grace is a part of him working relentlessly on our behalf...never leaving, never abandoning, never stopping.

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay falsehood by haste and uncertainty.

People want what they want. And I guess that is a reason we have this big credit card problem and a lot of these foreclosures.

I aint drive here I got chauffeured

All this health and safety talk is just killing me.

I’m trying to tell people that I am happy the way I am. But why do people have to call my happiness a failure?

He [Stuart Immonen] and I have known each other over email for 18, 19 years or something, so to finally work with him is like kissing the girl that you always wanted to kiss.

The central idea in The Black Swan is that: rare events cannot be estimated from empirical observation since they are rare.