Even more than the time when she gave birth, a mother feels her greatest joy when she hears others refer to her son as a wise learned one.

The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.

If the married life possess love and virtue, these will be both its duty and reward

She who has the excellence of home virtues, and can expend within the means of her husband, is a help in the domestic state

Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.

Uttering foul words, while there are the sweetest of words, is like going for the unripe fruits while there are a lot of ripe ones.

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you, do something good for them and make them feel shy for what they have done to you

Just as the hand rushes involuntarily to protect one's honor in case of accidental state of undress, so does a friend come to his friend's aid without being asked

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

Think wisely before you exercise an action. Having done so however, never look back and regret. That would be a shame

From whomsoever one hears anything, it is wisdom to understand the true import of it.

Let your actions sing the best melody of life so that everyone can joyfully listen to it.

Every step towards your dream today is a step away from your regret tomorrow.

Every utterance is an event and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view therefore is that no word ever means the same thing twice.

Developing confidence is like watching the sun rise. First it seems very feeble and one wonders whether it will make it. Then it shines and shines.

When you see someone who has turned his passion into a profit, ask yourself, ‘Why not me?

The more able we are to keep guns out the hand so criminals and spouse abusers all - the better. So the more information we have the better for law enforcement perspective.

Well, my father's people were Mormon, and had immigrated not long after Brigham Young had settled Utah.

In our modern complex world, fundamentalism is dangerous because of its rigidity and its imperviousness to other ideas.

I'm not a downtrodden woman. I just won't be.

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.