Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it’d created the only type of guy I could touch—a fantasy one.

Rise above your fears and you rise above your world.

I'm a guy. Unless the dirt attacks first, I leave it in peace.

And all I want is to hold her and make the rest of the world go away.

Networked science has the potential to speed up dramatically the rate of discovery across all of science.

This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time.

All I've done is give you a book. You have to have the courage to learn what's inside it.

I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

For people to be able to sit down together and have a conversation, that's the power of love.

It was the first time I'd ever said the words to another person, and the sound of them broke open my heart.