We believe that religions are basically the same…they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.

The hardest thing to do in the world is overcome the mind but it just so happens that it's also the most rewarding.

Mothers with high ideals for child-rearing must pay the price for those ideals.

Fear is the most insidious of weaknesses. You must learn to raze it from your soul, or risk defeat in all you do.

One source of the sublime is infinity.

I'm less certain now but kinder.

As an irrigator guides water to his fields, as an archer aims an arrow, as a carpenter carves wood, the wise shape their lives.

[M]y wish is, that the Convention may adopt no temporizing expedient, but probe the defects of the Constitution [i.e., the Articles of Confederation] to the bottom, and provide radical cures.

To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

I am unlimited in my own ability to create the good in my life.

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.