No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

Richness does not come from wealth or splendor, but from an appreciation of those things that you cannot buy.

Your mental attitudes are the parents of your life's outcomes.

Louisiana is a fresh-air mental asylum.

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?

Schools and districts and unions are working together on some really innovative things.

There's no way around it, drama is very difficult to shoot. It's very heavy and something that you carry with you for the course of the day.

America is definitely something I'm pretty excited about.

I love my fans and have devoted my life to reaching out to them.

The best thing I ever did with my life was stand up and say I've got Alzheimer's.