Obedience sums up our entire duty.

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.

Om is the things, Om is the ingredient, Om is the container and the content of this universe.

Great writers teach as well as entertain.

It doesn't matter if it's raining and dark. The sun is shining above the clouds.

A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.

If most of the breaks go to wealthy people it's because most of the people who pay taxes are wealthy.

Photography is the easiest thing to make, and one of the hardest things to make well.

You can't find peace by hiding from life

Don't throw me teddy-bears, I'm 23! I'm a man! Throw me condoms or money! Paper, not coins.

Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness

Know what it is the emotional statement to convey, and use taste and judgement to help the actors give their best possible performance.