Scriptural doctrine contains not abstruse speculation or philosophic reasoning, but very simple matters able to be understood by the most sluggish mind.

Every person should embrace those [dogmas] that he, being the best judge of himself, feels will do most to strengthen in him love of justice.

The purpose of the state is really freedom.

If Scripture were to describe the downfall of an empire in the style adopted by political historians, the common people would not be stirred.

There is something almost insane about countries without common borders going to war, something unnatural.

I wished it was raining, " he said."I don't need the rain, " I said. "I need you.

Life is a precious gift, but we realize this only when we are in the end. Change it.

Don't you find it strange that your mother would leave you?' Becky said. 'I can't imagine my other leaving me.'I'd never thought of it like that before. 'I don't think she knew what else to do.

Age does not matter in most relationships, but in marriage, it matters a lot. If you marry a younger you have to baby sit, and if you marry an older, you have to follow orders.

True wit is nature to advantage dress'd What oft was thought but ne'er so well expressed.

You're safer in the race car than you are in cars going to and from the track.

But the muse won’t always cooperate and she will never be coerced. Sometimes she’d rather take a nap or see a mid-afternoon movie.

What cannot be imagined cannot even be talked about.

I'm not about hair and makeup.