Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

Let us Build the Boat first to cross the River.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

I can't believe I've done what I've done.

I am not in 'Us Weekly.' I'd have to be going out with someone who is in there to be in there myself.

When someone helps you, then that means one thing, all they expect in return is for you to show them what you're doing and for you to help someone else.

The hope of impunity is the greatest inducement to do wrong.

Compassion is the thing that leads you gently back to yourself.

I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent.

We are bred to compare ourselves to the next person, to what they have and what they have accomplished.