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.

Doodling is the brooding of the hand.

It seemed to me a matter of course that we should all take our share of the burden of pain which lies upon the world.

I really like the United State, its relationship to space and time, its interest in mobility, its cosmopolitanism.

Some major churches overemphasize the importance of preaching as a means to increase membership and fail to reach out with compassion to their neighbors in need.

We must face life as it is and understand that diversity is its most essential feature.

You are not saved for the sole purpose of going to heaven; you are saved to finish your assignment on earth

Be brave enough to create.

Radical innovation is difficult to fund. It seems scary. And the really radical things seem even more scary.

...I loved to dance in studios, but not necessarily on stage. What I loved was to sweat and to feel every single pore open up

I appreciate CD's, but I've been digital for 10 years.