The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

A rich man who robs from the poor is really a pauper in the land of morality.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I’ve heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

The Hollywood sirens are shrieking, while down some search lit alley runs some lost belief.

It is not the body, nor the personality that is the true self. The true self is eternal. Even on the point of death we can say to ourselves, "my true self is free. I cannot be contained."

All directors make films in individual ways. But the classical kind of view of filmmaking is that you have a script and it's very linear.

As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.

Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.