Discipleship does not come from positions of prominence, wealth, or advanced learning. The disciples of Jesus came from all walks of life.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.

There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

One of the main problems in families today is that we spend less and less time together.... Time together is precious time-time needed to talk, to listen, to encourage, and to show how to do things.

Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.

You might not believe in the devil, but do you believe evil lurks in this world?

There's a lot of opportunities for scene-stealing if you're a dog.

Give me liberty! Or a bran muffin!

All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting.

Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

The best education for a writer, I think, is to read a lot - college can be a good place to do that.

You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be led.

Its a crazy world out there. Be curious.

Methinks I will not die quite happy without having seen something of that Rome of which I have read so much.

I will despair, and be at enmity With cozening hope.