Rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

When the world seems against you then your own confident and willpower will lead you till you reach your goal..

You cannot influence minds by making them feel comfortable. Influence should provoke the comfortable lifestyle into an uncomfortable situation where opportunities lie.

Who can say that he is not everything?

If you think a complimentary thought about someone, don't just think it. Dare to compliment people and pass on compliments to them from others.

Have you noticed that families on TV never watch television?

Be lowly wise: Think only what concerns thee and thy being.

Holiness appeared to me to be of a sweet, pleasant, charming, serene, calm nature; which brought an inexpressible purity, brightness, peacefulness and ravishment to the soul.

A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either

Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable narrative, written, produced and directed by somebody else.