It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.

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 he aint tellin his boys about you, you aint the one.

The growth of purposeful travel is a good thing. It can have a positive impact. We should continue to experiment and move along this line.

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

France would be reluctant to embrace any proposal by the European Commission to slash agricultural tariffs if it threatened the European Union's Common Agriculture Policy .

You are not fully dressed until you wear a smile.

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane.

The fundamental purpose of a novel like Count Julian is to achieve the unity of object and means of representation, the fusion of treason as scheme and treason as language.

[Photography is a] hair-raising joy ride in a medium that, despite being a mechanical trick, can break down the division between mind and matter like a superhero, or an artist.

Just because the laws were changed doesn't mean that the attitudes have changed.

He's a lucky guy Cristiano, he always gets first row tickets to see Messi win his awards.