You may be a dreadful failure. Christ is a divine success. Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

Great trials seem to be a necessary preparation for great duties. It would seem that the more important the enterprise, the more severe the trial to which the agent is subjected in his preparation.

What are the sciences but maps of universal laws, and universal laws but the channels of universal power; and universal power but the outgoings of a universal mind?

There is in man a conscience which outlives the sensations the sensations, resolutions, and emotions of the hour, and rises above them all.

Lincoln did but pour the soul of the nation into the monumental act of universal liberty; and that soul was inspired by the gospel.

As the profoundest philosophy of ancient Rome and Greece lighted her taper at Israel's altar, so the sweetest strains of the pagan muse were swept from harps attuned on Zion's hill.

Give us more and more of real Christianity, and we shall need less of its evidences. Act upon the supposition that Christ is a Divine Teacher, and you will soon have a demonstration of its truth.

Why are there five syllables in the word “monosyllabic”?

Feminism without femininity is a sham.

A superstition is a premature explanation that overstays its time.

The audition process is always grueling. You always hope to just get offered things, and sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesnt.

When the future looks dark, do not panic, because future does not exist yet; by using your intelligence, you can always turn it to bright!

Unfortunately the trick to great execution is to say no a lot.

The principle of natural selection is absolutely incompatible with the word of God. [It] contradicts the revealed relations of creation to its Creator.

The key to success is to find a way to stand out--to be the purple cow in a field of monochrome Holsteins.

Israel is my past. My two boys are my future.

If you're going to hire an assassin, let him go out and kill someone. I can't be Shaq taking six or seven shots.