Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.

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.

I know some women go in for excitement and danger. It must make them feel more alive. It's my professional judgment that you're a dangerous man.

Moral values, and a culture and a religion, maintaining these values are far better than laws and regulations.

I love to cook a meal for the so-called holidays. You always need the turkey. I like making a good BBQ brisket as well.

When alternative music - which is supposed to be the standard-bearer of where white rock is headed - becomes either too cute or too manufactured, that's just really not good.

Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony.

If you aren't getting flak, you aren't over the target.

I focus on the individual and not seeing this great big monster, "the press."

And if we're all one, we need to stop our competition with each other. Most of the decisions we make are about survival and winning.

The reward of eternal life requires effort.

Looking for me, Angel?