"Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so."

"Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity."

"Few nations have been so poor as to have but one god. Gods were made so easily, and the raw material cost so little, that generally the god market was fairly glutted and heaven crammed with these phantoms."

"Reason, observation, and experience the holy trinity of science."

"I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess."

"Forgiveness is not a feeling - it's a decision we make because we want to do what's right before God. It's a quality decision that won't be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense."

"The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature imagination of a man is healthy; but there is a space of life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the character undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition thick-sighted: thence proceeds mawkishness."

"The foundation stones for a balanced success are honesty, character, integrity, faith, love and loyalty."