Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission.

To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.

Life passes, riches fly away, popularity is fickle, the senses decay, the world changes. One alone is true to us; One alone can be all things to us; One alone can supply our need.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.

You shouldn't judge someone until you've walk a mile through an underground tunnel in her uncomfortable shoes

If you don’t want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won’t have to work.

A Time Comes When Silence is Betrayal.

The first step to having something in your life is to see yourself having it in your mind.

Things may happen and often do to people as brainy and footsy as you

I don't write my own songs. I don't have time.

I got about 6037 songs I wrote myself and I'm trying to get them on the market and I just wish people could hear them and stuff but they'll do pretty good.

New occasions teach new duties, time makes ancient good uncouth; They must upward still and onward, who would keep abreast of truth.

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.