There is a danger in being persuaded before one understands.

To serve God, to love God, to enjoy God, is the sweetest freedom in the world.

The commands of God are all designed to make us more happy than we can possibly be without them.

The greatest of all disorders is to think we are whole and need no help.

He, who loves praise, loves temptation.

Our life must answer for our faith.

Friendship is to be purchased only by friendship. A man may have authority over others, but he can never have their hearts but by giving his own.

The world would use us just as it did the martyrs, if we loved God as they did.

A great man is made so for others.

Intemperance in talk makes dreadful havoc in the heart.

It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them.

Why does a government agency that has no connection with my community have the right to dictate what is appropriate for it?

I don't want my kids growing up believing that there is nothing destructive in the world.

After six or seven performances of any song, you begin to perform it rather than feel it.

Instead of just being a band that's constantly replacing members, we figured we'd done all of the stuff we wanted to do. It seemed to make sense to see if we could live our lives without the band.

The stuff that I propose are things that I'm ready to govern with. They're not tools to get elected. They are programs and plans to do when you get elected.

It all begins with forgiveness, because to heal the world, we first have to heal ourselves. And to heal the kids, we first have to heal the child within, each and every one of us.

Ma, sooner or later there comes a point in a man's life when he's gotta face some facts. And one fact I've got to face is whateverit is women like, I ain't got it.

Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.

[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

If you've been playing poker for half an hour and you still don't know who the patsy is, you're the patsy.