There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

One of the main problems in families today is that we spend less and less time together.... Time together is precious time-time needed to talk, to listen, to encourage, and to show how to do things.

Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.

We perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.

Your insult by the ungodliness and injustice in the land is a force.

William "Boss" Tweed was in such thorough control in New York that he made money off of the report the committee printed after investigating him.

I think Chris Burden is terrific. I really do.

It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits.

Talent is nothing but long patience.

No place has delicatessen like New York.

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

When fortune flatters, she does it to betray.

Life is short, have dessert first.