Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

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.

In the distant golden sunset sky, a magnificent rainbow is opening wings to fly.

My career is my girlfriend.

Every time that I wanted to give up, if I saw an interesting textile, print what ever, suddenly I would see a collection.

Our contemporary life is based on information that can change at any time.

I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.

To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.

I always thought I'd be a New York theater actor, riding my bicycle to rehearsal. That was all I ever wanted.

You need lucky breaks to be successful.

In a sense, all fiction is experimental. Every new book is an adventure into unknown territory. As Hemingway told us, you (the writer) have to go out beyond where you have gone before.

You can stick a fork in Barack Obama. Politically, he's done. The main way we can screw this up is if we choose the wrong Republican.