Never marry when under the guise you need to 'see if it'll work', but rather marry because in your mind you want to make it work.

Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

A solid answer to everything is not necessary. Blurry concepts influence one to focus, but postulated clarity influences arrogance.

When a man is penalized for honesty he learns to lie.

Let your confidence reflect your contentedness.

The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything.

There are two circumstances that lead to arrogance: one is when you're wrong and you can't face it; the other is when you're right and nobody else can face it.

It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are right.

If you want to find the real competition, just look in the mirror. After awhile you'll see your rivals scrambling for second place.

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength.

The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men.

It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.

My heart is on a budget. It keeps me on the brink.

Some are just born bad, and that's all there is to it.

Once you lose that sense of wonder at being alive, you're pretty much on the way out.

If one believes, then miracles occur.

I don't like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me.

Our words have creative power. With our words, we can speak blessings over our future or we can speak negative things over our future.

What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?

The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored.

We never can create a public sentiment strong enough to suppress the dram-shops until God's people take hold of the temperance reform as a part of their religion.