To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

You don't look so much like a great hero, ' Jarrah said. 'I'm pretty sure I'm not, ' Mack said wearily. 'My throat is hoarse from screaming in terror. I don't think heroes have that problem.

I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.

To him who is in fear everything rustles.

Making personalized medicine a reality will require a strong partnership between 23andMe and the physician and medical communities.

Temptations are a file which rub off much of the rust of our self-confidence.

You can't wait forever for an audience to get the joke, but you should give them at least two seconds to join in before you go on to the next one.

There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous redhead.

Thoughts are going by like a river; awareness simply is.

He's a mean, mean man, but I love him all I can.