Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

Some so speak in exaggerations and superlatives that we need to make a large discount from their statements before we can come at their real meaning.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Thoughts lead on to purpose, purpose leads on to actions, actions form habits, habits decide character, and character fixes our destiny.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

It is a fine thing to establish one's own religion in one's heart, not to be dependent on tradition and second-hand ideals. Life will seem to you, later, not a lesser, but a greater thing.

Education is the light of our soul and joy of our life. We enlighten ourselves and the world with our education.

A work of art has value only if tremors of the future run through it.

My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.

I have a lot on my mind and not a lot to do so it's going to come out, all of it, and then, then, it may begin to make a sort of sense

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.

Our crew guys, it's amazing what they have to go through to make a show happen every night.

For the American Indian, the ability of all creatures to share in the process of ongoing creation makes all things sacred.

the appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.

To fear the worst oft cures the worst.