The Father most tender Father of all my immense God-I His atom.

Faith lifts the soul, Hope supports it, Experience says it must and Love says...let it be!.

Live simply, so that all may simply live.

The first end I propose in our daily work is to do the will of God; secondly, to do it in the manner he wills it; and thirdly to do it because it is his will.

The gate of heaven is very low; only the humble can enter it.

Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts.

We must often draw the comparison between time and eternity. This is the remedy of all our troubles. How small will the present moment appear when we enter that great ocean.

We must pray without ceasing, in every occurrence and employment of our lives - that prayer which is rather a habit of lifting up the heart to God as in a constant communication with Him.

When so rich a harvest is before us, why do we not gather it? All is in our hands if we will but use it.

Can you expect to go to heaven for nothing? Did not our Savior track the whole way to it with His tears and blood? And yet you stop at every little pain.

Disorder in the society is the result of disorder in the family.

Writers of fiction embellish reality almost without knowing it.

Every situation you conquer, you find the strength, your never knew you had.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

I know I'm probably much too late to try and apologize for my mistakes.

Understanding, as we understand it, is misunderstanding.

It'll all end in tears and oil.

I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things.

I don't think that my work appeals that much to the hard-core, avant-garde film audience. They appeal to people who teach film and those establishment figures on the East Coast.

I was born black and female.

I am convinced that music really is the universal language of beauty which can bring together all people of good will on earth