An academical system without the personal influence of teachers on pupils, is an arctic winter; it will create an icebound, petrified, cast-iron University, and nothing else.

Stuffing birds or playing stringed instruments is an elegant pastime, and a resource to the idle, but it is not education.

We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.

It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.

Dear Lord...shine through me, and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with may feel Your presence in my soul...Let me thus praise You in the way You love best, by shining on those around me.

It is mutual respect which makes friendship lasting.

When you feel in need of a compliment, give one to someone else.