Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.

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.

I am truly my mother's son.

Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.

Try being my size and going into a public restroom.

You don't feel like smiling? Then what? Force yourself to smile. Act as if you were already happy, and that will tend to make you happy.

But at 42, 1 don't care what critics think.

Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done.

This is the problem with over-crowded inner-city schools there aren't enough parts for everyone in the nativity story.

Catch someone doing something right.

The first rule in opera is the first rule in life: see to everything yourself

I want the Church to go out onto the streets, I want us to resist everything worldly, everything static, everything comfortable...eve rything that might make us closed in on ourselves.