There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.

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.

People who love themselves, don’t hurt other people. The more we hate ourselves, the more we want others to suffer.

Bad art might be defined as a series of bad choices about what to show and what to leave out.

I don't think about one trick or the other, they just happen.

I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.

Photography is an art which touches and grips one's own heart's blood.

As you get old, you live and learn.

I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway.

Everybody thinks that I did this and I did that, but I just went along with the times.

Its better to lose your ego to the One you Love than to lose the One you Love to your Ego

There was a time when beheadings were in the public mind because people around the world were getting their heads cut off for various reasons.