Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

I don't understand why asking people to eat a well-balanced, vegetarian diet is considered drastic, while it is medically conservative to cut people open.

I work hard, and I'm thankful people recognize that.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

Of all the artists who emerged in the '80s, I think perhaps Cindy Sherman is the most important.

sanity, in my opinion, is an achievement. I have seen very few well-balanced people in my life who were not dunces.

Cousins are more then cousins, there best friends that are their through it all.

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

Knives are like credit cards; don't leave home without 'em and always carry several

These people were not only cheering, they were throwing flowers and hats. The hats were made of stone, but the thought was there.