I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.

Every wicked act is a snare.

A Miracle is nothing more, than the removal of an Illusion".

Feel body as luxury-- as a bird feels when shooting through the air, and as a child does always -- is health

You wear your attitude. It is highly visible to every person you meet and shows up in the way act, live, and love.

When my cell phone rang, I'd just finished cutting up my marriage mattress.

Only the wise possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.

I like decorative, functional things that I feel comfortable in.

The hybrid I have now is one of the least expensive cars I've ever had. I had a BMW 318i convertible once, the ultimate driving machine.

When the Okies left Oklahoma and moved to California, they raised the average intelligence level in both states.