I don’t mind my friends calling me “Thornes, ” but the fact of people calling me “Prickly Thornes” draws the line.

I don’t mind my friends calling me 'Thornes, ' but the fact of people calling me 'Prickly Thornes' draws the line.

Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings.

The inquiries of the jurist are in truth prosecuted much as inquiry in physic and physiology was prosecuted before observation had taken the place of assumption.

If your religion has not changed your life, youd better change your religion.

Be careful to make a good improvement of precious time.

Realism is for pessimists. An optimist creates his own reality.

I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism.

At the heart of silence is prayer. At the heart of prayer is faith. At the heart of faith is life. At the heart of life is service.

The ultimate cause of human disease is the consequence of our transgression of the universal laws of life.

It's the reason the United States fell into the Patriot Act - because they were reacting.

Live your dream. Know what you want to do and never take no for an answer.