It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.

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.

It is the people that are angry at the status quo that makes a decision to bring change.

Every fear fades with faith.

Creation, in all its forms, is where I find beauty. If I could travel as far outward as I have inward, I would know with the utmost conviction that distance does not exist.

No success was won without self- determination and self-discipline.

What really matters to me is what my peers think.

I just don't have words to express how proud I am of this race team.

The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.

I like writing about the issues we all bump up against as we get older, but I try to present them in a fun way.

Liberty cannot be purchased by a wish.