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

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.

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.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

When you get crapped on, grow a garden.

I think there should be a literacy test and a poll tax for people to vote.

Immodest and attractive is easy. Modest and repulsive is easy too. But modest and attractive is an art form.

The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don't represent peace. They represent evil and war.

Twilight was the worst hour, because it was the hour of indecision.

Makeup isn't something I've worn a lot of in my life.

To see my statue unveiled alongside Borje Salming, the player I grew up idolizing in Sweden, will be very special for both my family and me.

Practice is this life, and realization is this life, and this life is revealed right here and now.

Infinite sharing is the law of God s inner life.

A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect