Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.

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.

The average IQ in America is—and this can be proven mathematically—average.

She ordered a martini and encouraged me to, but said she couldn't drink it with her medication. She just liked seeing it in front of her, like the old days, all set to do its little magic.

There was a sad fellow over on a bar stool talking to the bartender, who was polishing a glass and listening with that plastic smile people wear when they are trying not to scream.

Entire families work for Xerox.

Art is what we do. Culture is what is done to us. A photograph of an art object is not the art object. An essay about an artist's work is not the artist's work.

Don't take shortcuts; if I want to be true to my beliefs, then shortcuts do not exist.

The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.

Well, in the theater, I think you're actually more responsible for what is going on onstage as a director than you are in film.

I was disappointed to leave Spurs, but quite pleased that I did.

I know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.