I am aware that I preach a religious doctrine understood and accepted by a very small part of the religious world, when I point out the relation of the religious concept to physical fitness.

[Debt] It has driven thousands to drink, and the worry and anxiety it has created have literally taken the lives of many of our ablest men. It has prostrated individuals, enterprises and nations.

Keeping the commandments . . . is at once a demonstration of our intelligence, our knowledge, our character, and our wisdom.

Debt is a task master to be feared almost as much as the dictators themselves. It has enslaved thousands in its meshes. It has wrecked happy homes.

I have never seen happier people than those who have repented.

Debt robs a man of much of the energy and support which he is otherwise able to give to the church and to other good causes.

Any conscious, wilful impairment of the body is an affront to God.

The scarlet letter was her passport into regions where other women dared not tread.

Love is deepest driving passion of a purposeful life.

This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.

Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.

Next to victory, there is nothing so sweet as defeat, if only the right adversary overcomes you.

When I hear [about a housing bubble] I get the sense that people aren't connecting the dots.

Nobody knows the world of emotion I'm inhabiting right now.

Happy the man who never puts on a face, but receives every visitor with that countenance he has on.

To me he will not just be remembered as a great player and a lovely human being, but as somebody who tried to learn Bengali for the last 14 years but never managed to do so!

I intend no Monopoly, but a Community in Learning; I study not for my own sake only, but for theirs that study not for themselves.