"Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?"

"Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel."

"The power of faith will often shine forth the most when the character is naturally weak."

"The intellect of the wise is like glass it admits the light of heaven and reflects it."

"There is always strength in numbers. The more individuals or organizations that you can rally to your cause, the better."

"In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down."

"Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound."

"They might not need me but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity."