Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms.

Don't judge a book by its cover

A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men.

Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty.

What makes life dreary is the want of a motive.

Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

We don't like to kill our unborn

Compassion is often mistaken for weakness, when the fact is, there is very little that is more powerful than the courage it takes to give it.

We're a new world and it's not pretty. It's going to be for the brave to figure out how to survive in this.

It is true that the mental aspect of kung-fu is the desired end; however, to achieve this end, technical skill must come first.

If we played like that every week, we wouldn't be so inconsistent.

A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.

There is no greater fame for a man than that which he wins with his footwork or the skill of his hands.

The events and prophecies of our time are preparing us for the Savior's Second Coming.

Why would I want to read something about somebody that's just a really nice, decent person who overcomes terrible trials? That's not how life is to me.

Well, I'm not saying that an emissions tax is ever going to be good policy.