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.

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.

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

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.

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.

If you can’t celebrate your success, appreciate your failure. Since life is all about celebration and appreciation.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

You never know when you lose a case whether it was because the facts were against you, or because the judges had already made up their minds, or if you could have done something differently.

The heart is a place of great light and their are different gradations of light that pass through the heart.

It's not the governor’s role to decide who goes to heaven. That’s God’s role.

But in my humble opinion, a house needs a good party once in a while; remind folks it exists.

We need to evolve and articulate a global ethics for a global civilization that integrates and evolves the passionate truths of every great system of knowledge - pre-modern, modern, and post-modern.

That which we remember of our conduct is ignored by our closest neighbour; but that which we have forgotten having said, or even what we never said, will cause laughter even into the next world.

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.