The best way to improve our lives is to improve our thoughts.

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.

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.

You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.

The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them dangerous.

The finest flowers are those transplanted, for transplanting means difficulty, a readjusting to new conditions, and through the effort put forth to find adjustment does the plant progress.

People think me a sort of Florence Nightingale, but I have no heroic qualities. I simply don’t feel very much.

I didn't think of rap with that type of south feel and that look and the hay and all that.

This is truly marvelous work full of mystery, nostalgia, joy, The Color of Whimsy.

I should warn you that underneath these clothes I'm wearing boxer shorts and I know how to use them.

I had planned to be a psychology major, but I bombed introductory psychology.

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls.

The important thing when it comes to grooming, as when it comes to clothes, is you do not want anything to distract from the strength and power of your ideas,.

Faith is not jumping to conclusions. It is concluding to jump.