even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty; and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.

It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.

Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.

It is not what we have but what we do with what we have that constitutes the value of life.

What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.

there ain't no use in dyin' 'fore yer time. Lots of folks is walkin' 'round jes' as dead as they'll ever be.

The fascinating thing about ideals is that no sooner have we gained a desired peak than we find farther and higher peaks beyond. The thrilling adventure never ends.

Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.

Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.

When one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.

God is a cloud from which rain fell.

It's not what you did, but what you could have done if you allowed the Lord to work His will in your life.

It is a thoroughly anti-Christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

People always ask me, 'Where were you when Kennedy was shot?' Well, I don't have an alibi.

She's a nice girl, but her bad girl's better.

our present picture of physical reality, particularly in relation to the nature of time, is due for a grand shake up

Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!

There's always something about home that's special.

My clothes are very popular in Japan.