Find a mission that you can give yourself over to and then spend your days moving that mission forward. Man is made so that when anything fires his soul the impossibilities vanish. The influence of each human being on others in this life is a kind of immortality.

We know the redemption must come.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.

We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ and I cannot cavil or quibble away... the whole tenor of His conduct by which He sometimes positively asserted and at others countenances His disciples in asserting that He was God.

I have to study politics and war so that my sons can study mathematics, commerce and agriculture, so their sons can study poetry, painting and music.