Be cheerful in all that you do. Live joyfully. Live happily. Live enthusiastically, knowing that God does not dwell in gloom and melancholy, but in light and love.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.

I feel the only thing you can do about life is to preserve it, by art if you're an artist, by children if you're not.

I cannot live without reading.

To write, ” Marguerite Duras remarked, “is also not to speak. It is to keep silent. It is to howl noiselessly.

It is be­cause freedom means the renun­ciation of direct control of individual efforts that a free society can make use of so much more knowledge than the mind of the wisest ruler could comprehend.

You could never prove innocence, not in the match with the man who only had to imply guilt.

If you keep your destiny in mind, every moment in life becomes an opportunity for moving closer to it.

Originality is never embraced as quickly as the commonplace.

As women are empowered, violence can come down, for a number of reasons. By all measures, men are the more violent gender.

As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan.