God did not intend that we should be cowards, or delinquents, or fools, or sinners or weaklings. He created us in his own image and commanded us to be men.

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.

Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity.

But it is precisely at those moments when the glass seems to be ‘set fair’ that Fate invariably decides to take a hand.

Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished

We get an apartment together, and after a whirlwind courtship you marry my sister and honeymoon in Vegas.

Take short walks in the park down a happy trail.

You start playing when it's cold and you want to be playing when it's cold again.

You're like the devil with horns in your head, the only way I'll get you is to get you in bed.

I'd rather see a kid get fixated on something they can turn into a career.

If we desire rules to govern our spiritual development we turn back to the Sermon on the Mount.