Some people habitually wear sadness, like a garment, and think it a becoming grace. God loves a cheerful worshipper.

The bosom can ache beneath diamond brooches; and many a blithe heart dances under coarse wool.

Through every rift of discovery some seeming anomaly drops out of the darkness, and falls, as a golden link into the great chain of order.

It is difficult to believe that a true gentleman will ever become a gamester, a libertine, or a sot.

Do not judge from mere appearances.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

Pride is the master sin of the devil, and the devil is the father of lies.

Neutral men are the devil's allies.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

Heaven never defaults. The wicked are sure of their wages, sooner or later.

Insanity is a gradual process - don't rush it.

I don't want to say something and walk away, I want to wake you up and walk with you to achieve your dreams

Love is the first feeling we felt since birth and the last thing will need in Death.

If you live long enough the venerability factor creeps in you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.

In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

You learned in school that you have pencils and paper only because the trees gave themselves in unconditional sacrifice.

I wasn't comfortable on stage for years. It was good - 18 shows. I want to do it again.

A man is perhaps ungrateful, but often less chargeable with ingratitude than his benefactor is.

It's a powerful thing to know that you are empowering someone to lift themselves out of poverty.

There are so many bands always doing the same album over and over; I want to evolve, try new things.