When Christianity is received, it stimulates the faculties, and calls forth new ideas, new motives and new sentiments. It has been the mother of all modern education

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

They who know most of God on earth or heaven know that they know little after all; but they know that they may know more and more of Him throughout eternal ages.

It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.

...people called it justice, but prison doesn't make everything better, " he observes. "Just because someone pays a price doesn't mean they didn't steal from you to begin with.

Fritz was melancholic by nature, and could tolerate his own gloom. I do not think this is so with you, who are sanguine and impatient. In your case, remorse and despondency could be crippling.

As of now they are still very young so that has come in the form of dress up, make believe and singing songs, but we will always support our girls in their choices and help them to dream big.

The eye and fantasy feel more attracted by nebulous distance than by that which is close and distinct in front of us.

If a man is not faithful to his own individuality, he cannot be loyal to anything.

Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God's kingdom and God's cleverness

A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch.

Theres no way that I could be the president. You cant have a pacifist in the White House... Im an actor. This is what I do for a living.

Humans hardly know what they want, how they want it, or when they want it.

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.