The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word.

Some writers, rejecting the idea which science had reached, that reefs of rocks could be due in any way to "animalcules," have talked of electrical forces, the first and last appeal of ignorance.

The profoundest facts in the earth's history prove that the oceans have always been oceans.

Science, while it penetrates deeply the system of things about us, sees everywhere, in the dim limits of vision, the word mystery.

Mount Shasta - a vision of immensity such as pertains to the vast universe rather than to our own planet.

The coral zoophyte may be leveled by transported masses swept over by the waters; yet like the trodden sod, it sprouts again, and continues to grow and flourish as before.

Building community for its own sake is like attending a cancer support group without having cancer.

It takes zero politically correct people to screw in a lightbulb because they are perpetually in the dark.

The glass ceiling doesn't apply when you're building your own house

I have to go... drop some kids in the pool.

Go insane go insane, throw some glitter, make it rain...!

All of us have been dying, hour by hour, since the moment we were born. Realizing this, let all things be placed in their proper perspective. . . . Remember, it is always later than you think.

Humor is the offspring of man; it comes forth like Minerva, fully armed from the brain.

I look forward to beginning a relationship with Al Jazeera America, which has made a commitment to producing quality programming and pursuing underreported stories.

You’ve got to not only love yourself for who you are with all your mistakes, but you’ve got to love the world for what it can bring you if you have the right attitude

Of all the 'attitudes' we can acquire, surely the attitude of gratitude is the most important and by far the most life-changing.