Why was I born, if just to live in misery

Often, people who can do, don’t because they’re afraid of what people that can’t do will say about them doing.

Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

I know that I cannot change the entire world, but I've always believed I can at least affect change in my world.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

You glorify God with gratitude.

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.

Films must all have the same structure. All of this to guarantee box office bonanza, which of course it never does, but that's another discussion entirely.

There is beautiful in the grotesque.

In life, there are no perfect affections.

Normally, people believe that, if they hear just words, that these words must lead to some thought.

Looking for inspiration in expression, I have actually always looked to singers and violinists. I have never really looked only at the recorder as a remedy for my expressions.

I don't like modern country music. It's not what I'm into, is all. I'm old-school.

The English were notoriously unenthusiastic about burning witches. I suppose ours were too soggy.