Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

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.

With a clear intention and a willing spirit, sooner or later we experience the joy and freedom that arises when we recognize our common humanity with others and see that real love excludes no one.

Love is an energy that is addictive, contagious and free. Earn it, chase it, give it to those in need.

All people have one chance, if there is possibility of other life. It's again one chance your knowledge from the knees up to the head is reset like the games.

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

Maybe that's what is crazy: to want to be free. A lot of people wouldn't cross the street for it.

I wanted to play the part that Mary Kay played, the lawyer who wanted to have baby and felt her clock ticking, because it was something I could relate to.

One skill that separates good from almost-good runners is an ability to concentrate for an entire race, whether it is a mile or a marathon.

Sociology seems to have missed every intellectually promising boat in the last half century.

Dizzy with excitement is no mere phrase.

Don't die with your music still in you. Don't die with your purpose unfulfilled. Don't die feeling as if your life has been wrong. Don't let that happen to you.