Mouths talk without authority sometimes.

A parting is sadder than a death, Ma always said, for two people are dead to one another and yet go on living.

a heart may be lifted up and cast down in the same moment, as sometimes sunshine comes while rain is falling and builds upward in the sky tall reaches of misty, unlikely beauty.

a mother-in-law's praise says more in a woman's favor than anything else in the world.

Pity makes a thin drink, indeed.

The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off.

I dont really like meetings, I like recording and performing music. I need to set myself up for when the time does come that I need better distribution or just a bigger team behind me.

Well, I started thinking about what you were saying about how your movies need to make a profit. Now, what is the one thing, if you put it in a movie, it'll be successful?

I have not laughed since I married.

Nonsense, do you imagine he has thought as much of you as you have of him?

Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.

One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher.

Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarrelling in the greatest possible comfort and convenience.

The question is not, "Do you know you are a sinner?" the question is this, "As you have heard me preach the Gospel, has God so worked in your life that the sin you once loved you now hate?"

You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.