Mere pleasure is at best but fleeting; happiness is abiding, for in the recollection thereof is renewed.

The world's greatest champion of woman and womanhood is Jesus the Christ.

The Lord's hand in in our lives; if we will but feel for it, in the darkness, we can grasp it and be lifted thereby.

Man cannot measure the bounds nor fathom the depths of divine forgiveness.

Physical exercise is indispensable to the development of body, and quite as certainly is spiritual activity requisite to the healthful and normal development of the soul.

Within the Gospel of Jesus Christ there is room and place for every truth thus far learned by man or yet to be made known.

No pang that is suffered by man or woman upon the earth will be without its compensating effect . . . if it be met with patience.

Prayer is the Lord's great sterilizer against the germs of spiritual disease.

Gratitude is twin sister to humility; Pride is foe to both.

Belief, in one of its accepted senses, may consist in a merely intellectual assent, while faith implies such confidence and conviction as will impel to action.

No opinion that cannot stand discussion or criticism is worth holding.

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

Once you know some things, you can't unknow them. It's a burden that can never be given away.

Obviously the Internet has become something of a leveler; it was once a luxury to be able to reach a mass audience, and now anybody can do it, to some extent.

Therefore let us repent and pass from ignorance to knowledge, from foolishness to wisdom, from licentiousness to self-control, from injustice to righteousness, from godlessness to God.

The art of happiness is to serve all, and all shall serve you.

I predict, not because I know, but because I'm asked.

Marx was wrong--religion is not the opiate of the masses, baseball is.

There are three basic approaches to AI: Case-based, rule-based, and connectionist reasoning.

My characters, I find them as I'm writing. It's quite incredible how fully realized they are in my mind, how many details I know about each of them.

The shortest follies are the best.