Power is always right weakness always wrong. Power is always insolent and despotic.

Education is useless without the Bible. The Bible was America's basic text book in all fields. God's Word, contained in the Bible, has furnished all necessary rules to direct our conduct.

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.

In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect or denomination of the candidate-look to his character.

No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.

A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.

Any system of education...which limits instruction to the arts and sciences and rejects the aids of religion in forming the characters of citizens, is essentially defective.

The heart should be cultivated with more assiduity than the head.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices not only his own interest, but that of his neighbor; he betrays the interest of his country.

How can life end in the middle of the story? Because life always does.

Seek awaken in the inner spirit.

As far as a cocktail, I do like good wines, basically with meals, and good champagnes.

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

Hosting a TV show is a full-time job in which success is defined by it never ending.

To my credit, I think I'm a gentle control freak. Maybe even a little manipulative.

If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification.

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

Every ‘mistake’ is an opportunity in jazz.