Difficulty is one of the prices that we pay for our blessings.

Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.

Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination.

The best way to improve our lives is to improve our thoughts.

All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.

Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here and certainly not much promise is held out for them hereafter.

Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.

Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought of in our day as a major virtue.

We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.

If I were asked to give the best idea of which I am capable, it would be that we should get out of the junk business and then start laying up treasures in heaven.

A woman's sense of self and power should come not from the number of heads she can turn, but rather from the minds and hearts she can turn.

Play the game of peace, not the war.Play, not with gun, but with laughter.

Patriotism. I'm uncomfortable with any word that starts with a pat, ends in an ism and has a riot in the middle.

My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the sanctity of life, animal as well as human.

Compared to Nature we suffer a poverty of imagination; it is thus much easier for us to uncover than to invent.

As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.

Let no one imagine that in owning a recording he has the music. The very practice of music is a celebration that we own nothing.

We've been raised to compete, to want more! More! More! It's a way of life. It's about greed.

I thought about running a marathon a long time ago, but I'm just not a runner.