All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no genealogies of development.

Problems are only opportunities with thorns on them.

The sky is full of tokens which speak to the intelligent.

Life itself is a school, and Nature always a fresh study.

Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness.

It is an excellent circumstance that hospitality grows best where it is most needed.

That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.

The footprint of the savage traced in the sand is sufficient to attest the presence of man to the atheist who will not recognize God, whose hand is impressed upon the entire universe.

‎I'm in a win-win playoff. " Response of a Christian dying of cancer at thirty on the prospect of miraculous healing.

Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.

Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile.

I must have been a koala in my past life.

It's always freezing on planes.

We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.

Our industry does not respect tradition - it only respects innovation.

I do remember, the first time we met [with Patti Smith], the door opening with a squeak. And then there was this very beautiful girl looking out.