Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.

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.

If you were stranded in the ocean in a small boat with a paddle, I’d tell you to pray to God, but row for the shore!

You have to nourish your creativity for it to flourish...

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

Well, actually it carried Cadmus. Europa fell off and died along the way, but that's not important.'It was probably important to her.

It requires enormous energy for us to cut the African American uninsured rate by a third. A lot of scars.

Whenever you get game adaptations, it strikes me that it's always the gamers who get mugged because they try and make it for everyone else first and the actual gamers last.

A podium is something you walk up to, you say what you want to say and when you're finished, you leave.

You don't need to be accepted by everyone else to get reaccepted by the one who made you.

Don't cheat people of their growth. Empower them to solve problems and generate ideas. Watch them grow!

If I'm at a party and someone puts on a Blues Brothers tape, I tend to go nuts.