Silence holds the door against the strife of tongue and all the impertinences of idle conversation.

Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee.

Religion gives a dignity to distress.

The heavens are nobly eloquent of the Deity, and the most magnificent heralds of their Maker's praise.

Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven.

God in tender indulgence to our different dispositions; has strewed the Bible with flowers, dignified it with wonders, and enriched it with delight.

Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.

The Walls enriched with Fruit-trees and faced with a covering of their leafy extensions; I should rather have said hung with different Pieces of Nature's noblest Tapestry.

I believe in treating others as I want to be treated--but I certainly don't believe in turning the other cheek and the truth is that I never knew any Christians who did either.

We will fiercely challenge those forces within the education establishment who impede innovation in our schools and who protect and defend inequality and institutional failure.

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.

All schools both here and in America should teach far fewer subjects far better.

I feel really good right now. It will really be a tough decision. It's so hard to give up what you love doing. Hanging up the boots will not be an easy thing to do.

Find your life perfect and deal with what emerges.

All obedience begins in the affections, and nothing in religion is done right, that is not done there first.

There are 6.6 billion people on the planet today. With organic farming we could only feed four billion of them. Which two billion would volunteer to die?

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.