I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen.

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

Thanksgiving is a time when the world gets to see just how blessed and how workable the Christian system is. The emphasis is not on giving or buying, but on being thankful and expressing that appreciation to God and to one another.

God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.

God helps those who help themselves.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.

Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'