We are growing serious and let me tell you that's a very next step to being dull.

The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship.

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs.

If you wish to succeed in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, experience your wise counselor, caution your elder brother, and hope your guardian genius.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week.

No one is more cherished in this world than someone who lightens the burden of another. Thank you.

The voice of reason is more to be regarded than the bent of any present inclination; since inclination will at length come over to reason, though we can never force reason to comply with inclination.

Ridicule is generally made use of to laugh men out of virtue and good sense, by attacking everything praiseworthy in human life.

Sin has tarnished every area of life, and [Christ] wants to erase its stain everywhere.

Don't limit a child to your own learning for he was born in another time.

I have never believed much in luck, and my sense of humor has tended to walk on the dark side.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease; he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

I think Antony Worrall Thompson is dreadful, just repulsive.

In my twenties, I was a huge, insane risk-taker.

If you're going to vote for somebody because you think they have a great faith in God, you'd better be sure that God has faith in them.

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.

There are so many things that go into a surgical study.

I've been to two concerts in the last 10 years.Bob Seger and the Eagles.