For once I've met somebody, the years cannot erase... The memory of a pleasant word or of a friendly face...

God grant me courage and hope for everyday, faith to guide me along my way, understanding and wisdom, too, and grace to accept what life gives me to do.

When you ask God for a gift, Be thankful if he sends, Not diamonds, pearls or riches, but the love of real true friends.

You cannot change reality, but you can control the manner in which you look at things. Your attitude is under your own control. Weed out the negative and focus on the positive!

No matter how steep the mountain - the Lord is going to climb it with you.

A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there.

The way to real growth is not to become more powerful or more famous, but to become more human and more tolerant.

Comfort comes from knowing that people have made the same journey. And solace comes from understanding how others have learned to sing again.

In everything both great and small, We see the Hand of God in all.

Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow.

Peace on earth will come to stay, When we live Christmas every day.

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Any time you put Matheny in, that's good managing.

A person’s first duty, a young person’s at any rate, is to be ambitious, and the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

A candle loses nothing of its light by lighting another candle.

Present sufferings seem far greater to men than those they merely dread.

If any Muslim plants any plant and a human being or an animal eats of it, he will be rewarded as if he had given that much in charity.

I don't have television so I don't watch TV.

contempt for the degradation of specialization and pedantry. Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

There's not that many surprises that you get in life.

Until we reach equality in education, we can't reach equality in the larger society.