The sovereign power of all civil authority is founded in the consent of the people.

The greatest crime is not developing your potential. When you do what you do best, you are helping not only yourself, but the world.

It is less hurtful to compel a man to marry someone whom he does not love than to follow a religion in which he does not believe.

God is too large to be housed under one roof.

When they have opened a gap in the ... wall of separation between the Garden of the Church and the wildernes of the world, God hath ever ... made his Garden a Wildernesse.

The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.

When in doubt, use nutrition first.

That cannot be a true religion which needs carnal weapons to uphold it.

Men's consciences ought in no sort to be violated, urged, or constrained.

A false worship will not hurt the civil state if the worshipper breaks no civil law.

Sometimes the truth is stupid.

You can tell it's a poem because it's swimming in a little gel pack of white space. That shows it's a poem.

Christ is the very epitome of innocence, and without the blood of Christ, shed on Calvary, God's plan of salvation would not have been fulfilled.

The two great tests of character are wealth and poverty.

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

A baseball bat could not have hit me harder than that smile did. I was sixteen years old. In that time, how many thousands of smiles had been aimed at me? so why did this one feel like the first?

As soon as I walk out that door, you're gonna decide you want me back. You might even tell yourself that you're in love with me. But you're not. You never will be.

My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts.

How many people in the world is, each of them is individual. And I like to eat bread, somebody don't like that. You know this is the same in gymnastics.

A work of art when placed in a gallery loses its charge, and becomes a portable object or surface disengaged from the outside world.

The blues is a hopeful music. It helps you process something rather than avoid it. It's like mourning, in essence.