Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.

If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

In the service of the Lord it is not where but how you serve.

We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.

Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead.

It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.

Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague; where we are now in debt, let us get out of debt; if not today...tomorrow.

If the gospel is only for the learned, how few there are of us who could have any use for it.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood - human blood.

Saving petrol is saving India's money. This is a sense of patriotism. The country can be energy-independent by energy conservation. I appeal to the other ministers also to do this.

There's no sense in going to a tournament if you don't believe that you can win it. And that is the belief I have always had. And that is not going to change.

Probably I am very naive, but I also think I prefer to remain so, at least for the time being and perhaps for the rest of my life.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

The end never comes when you think it will. It's always ten steps past the worst moment, then a weird turn to the left.

Property is impossible.

If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment.

I was very prejudiced when I started arts school. I, like all of those kids, was like, "I don't like this modern stuff." I came to arts school with a very stupid, conservative set of ideas about art.

I never had a real job either. I sort of fell out of school and ended up playing guitar.