Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion. I repeat: Pride is the great stumbling block of Zion.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

Motivate yourself, you can be great.

He who does not need to lie is proud of not being a liar.

Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished?

I've never attended any Tea Party functions.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policies and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing something only a daily paper can do.

There's drama in everything. That's why I love movies. Like Welcome to the Dollhouse, I'm a 350-pound black man, and I could understand what it was like to be a little white girl.

Man proposes, but God disposes.

Union with God is really possible. Unity with God I presume, is what is meant by Heaven, but that too is available in this life for the humble of heart.

My slogan when I ran was that there is no such thing as government money, there is only taxpayer's money, and that cut pretty deep.