An outward observance without any real inward meaning is only a ceremony.

We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.

God is the God of the present as well as of the future...even here on earth, He reigneth, dispensing good and evil.

So true is it that all sin is ultimately against the Lord; so bitter is the root of self.

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

Desperate courage makes One a majority.

We are all citizens of history.

I'm not a lawmaker, but I was thinking that if you have a really loud ring tone, maybe you should be stabbed in the ear?

Mathematics is really an art, not a science.

It's casual Friday, which means that at the White House, they're casually going through everybody's phone calls and records.

We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Fashion is just really standing up in the forefront and it's being even mentioned at the same level as the music. I sort of feel like that's where it gets a little sketchy.

Broken vows are like broken mirrors. They leave those who held to them bleeding and staring at fractured images of themselves.

This is very domestic of you," he said. "It's kinda hot, really. Giving me all sorts of fantasies about you in an apron vacuuming my house.

The light is the left hand of darkness.