Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.

Cowardice asks: Is it safe? Expediency asks: Is it politic? But Conscience asks: Is it right?

There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?

Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.

There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; ? it shall go ringing on through the ages.

Our days of praise shall ne'er be past While life, and thought, and being last, And immortality endures.

We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.

Quite often you look for answers and strength in friends (supposed 2b) around you, without realizing All the true strength and honest answers come from within!!!

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Perhaps one never seems so much at one's ease as when one has to play a part.

Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying.

I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

The history of the world is none other than the progress of the , consciousness of freedom.

Some folks can look so busy doing nothing that they seem indispensable.

The main thing is that the 'C' is silent, so it kind of starts with a 'Z.' Z-O-O-K-RIE. It's Ukrainian, on my dad's side.

I don't think I've ever tried to change anyone. I don't have the energy.

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.