Mercy. That is the gospel. The whole of it in one word.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

Truth and justice are commonly found in the personality of the paranoid delusional

Happiness is the perpetual possession of being well deceived.

Marriage is commonly a meal wherein the soup is better than the desert.

There's no greater challenge and there is no greater honor than to be in public service.

My mother said, "kiss him, darling, it's easy so natural" and I thought to myself, not with lips of stone, dear mother, not with lips of stone

What is difficult about learning - any kind of learning - is that you have to give up what you know already to make room for the new ideas. Children are much better at it than grownups.

Death is God's delightful way of giving us life.

If every Christian family brought in a child who needed a family we would put the foster care system out of business.

Social media is its own sort of thing: Twitter and Facebook have changed the way everyone perceives everything.

Remember, life is all what you focus on. Learn lessons and keep moving forward towards your goals and dreams... "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."