It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

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.

The poor want a few dollars more - the rich focus on making more.

Music becomes flesh and thrives in a new world, a new man . . .He, the last-born, son of music and love, shall arise in triumph over an ample land, prophet of a soul yet more ample . . .

The world is not looking for proof of Jesus Christ

Hold on to the darkness... I will come looking for your light.

The Reverence of God is reverence for life.

Success has a lot of different plateaus. But I first felt really proud of myself when I was doing an off-Broadway production in New York City.

Out of all the weird things out of the tour, the weirdest thing for me is singing every day.

Be your own lamps. Be your own shelters. Hang on to the truth as a lamp. Hang on to the truth as a refuge.

If one does not attach himself to people and desires, never shall his heart be broken. But then, does he ever truly live?

One individual may die for an idea, but that idea will, after his death, incarnate itself in a thousand lives.