Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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.

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.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.

No one can write like Cheryl Strayed.

I had such a big mouth for so long that it doesn't faze anybody anymore.

Now is that last time you'll see today, so make it memorable.

Americans are good at making dance music.

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Hillary Clinton doesn't connect with people.

Most humans recognize their ruin, but they carry on regardless.

I think the greatest gift we can give our children is to show them that devotion to God's purposes - love for all beings - is the center of all right living.

I'm pretty, but I'm not beautiful.