It is as futile and dangerous to aim at making of society one large family, as sentimental socialism seeks to do, as to aim at making of it one large team, as positivist socialism seeks to do.

The modern absolutism, which we find the most natural thing in the world, would have been quite beyond the dreams of the most absolute of kings.

Every child gets a good mother, but not every mother gets a good child.

Soul is a constant. It's cultural. It's always going to be there, in different flavors and degrees.

Every time we see people as ordinary, we turn the wine back into water.

One was to be a cowboy and another was to be in the military. I grew up extremely patriotic and riding horses.

Success is no longer content. It's how it sells.

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

Smile creates love and peace; love and peace create smile.

Whatever makes us feel superior to other people, whatever tempts us to convey a sense of superiority, that is the gravity of our sinful nature, not grace.

Believe in the immortality and everlasting effects of your goodness.

He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.