Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Part of the down-to-earthness that made the pioneers succeed was expressed in a sentence: It takes pretty good [people] to get along with water ditches in a dry time, and not quarrel.

We must seek the loving-kindness of God in all the breadth and open-air of common life.

Power and position often make a man trifle with the truth.

The heart which finds life in material wealth is usually certain to go farther and seek for more in the satisfaction of base and sullen appetites.

Lives are changed by a moment's listening to conscience, by a single and quiet inclination of the mind.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!

Let those who, still in their youth, have preserved their faith and fullness of hope, keep looking up.

If we have a heart for the magnitudes of life, it will not seem vain to believe that God Himself should guard it.

Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.

Play is always voluntary. What might otherwise be play is work if it's forced.

The best way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

It is far better to give work that is above a person, than to educate the person to be above their work.

Without the law, you can't have society. But without the arts, you can't have civilisation

Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me.

Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

I'd really love to live in New York for awhile. That's what I'm hoping to do.

Can't be touched, Can't be stopped, Can't be moved, Can't be rocked, Can't be shook.

Number one on my top five is Beyonce.

There's nothing you can say that won't make you seem ungrateful or rude.