Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

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.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Nothing's far when one wants to get there.

Sometimes we think we are too busy to pray. That is a great mistake for praying is a saving of time.

I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.

One might just as well trust in the "good luck" of a rabbit's foot as to hope for spiritual benefit from a Catholic scapular, medal, crucifix, or relic of an alleged "saint."

Analytically speaking, Sigmund Freud talked out of his arse

... there's one of the great lies of all times, that computers save time. They don't. They're time suckers. So, I'm trying not to get involved in the Photoshop.

Whenever you do die people remember you, so it's not completely over. You don't 100 percent die when you die ever, because people still know who you were.

The most creative or versatile to date...I don't know, man. That's a good question. I didn't really think about that.

A cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.