Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

Never embarrass a student in front of others. Embarrass yourself often to relieve the tension, but do not paint them into a corner.

...evil fascinates and repels us - it's a terrible beauty that enthralls us the more we stare into it...

If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.

Fear wins or Freedom wins, and I choose Freedom.

The biggest problem with dyslexic kids is not the perceptual problem, it is their perception of themselves. That was my biggest problem.

Neglect of appearance becomes men.

The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.

I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach.

I'm like a woman scorned. I'm prepared to continue to kick their fanny until the last day I'm alive on this Earth because they have mistreated too many people.