True repentance always involves reform.

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.

When anyone thinks a woman who serves "gives 'cause that's what mothers or real women do, " they deny her full humanity and thus fail to see the generosity inherent in her acts.

Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.

When I met Ronnie Spector, she walked in and said, 'You look like me.'

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.

Dad built houses and when they were sold, he moved on to a new town, so I know a lot about my native state.

I called my son Jett and I wanted to call my daughter Qantas, but my wife wouldn't let me.

But I remember being told that the truth does not depend on being believed.

Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.