Science is busy with the hither-end of things, not the thither-end.

Purposelessness is the fruitful mother of crime.

Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.

Purpose is what gives life meaning.

Home interprets heaven. Home is heaven for beginners.

All true manliness grows around a core of divineness.

All great discoveries are made by men whose feelings run ahead of their thinking.

Faith is the heroism of the intellect.

Virtue is safe only when it is inspired.

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

Laws of Nature are God's thoughts thinking themselves out in the orbs and the tides.

Hate springs from fear. Violence is released hatred. Behind every hateful crime and act of human brutality is an admission of fearfulness.

A man can make a son but a true man would be a father. A lady can have a child, but a real mother raises the child.

I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

Money has to serve, not to rule.

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

A lot of actors flame out.

I never had becoming Miss America on my radar screen. But when I was 17, I decided to quit the violin and my parents were devastated.

A person can only be born in one place. However, he may die several times elsewhere: in the exiles and prisons, and in a homeland transformed by the occupation and oppression into a nightmare.

I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion.

Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even those who are the weakest in manifestation.