There is a fatality about unkept good resolutions. They are simply checks that men draw on a bank where they have no account.

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.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.

I can't even vote in America!

He that is conscious of guilt cannot bear the innocence of others:So they will try to reduce all others to their own level.

Now, settle down, settle down. Hell, I'm an old man, it's early in the morning and I'm gathering my thoughts here.

Twitter is unspeakably irritating. Twitter stands for everything I oppose.

It is profoundly important to honor President Johnson's historic contributions to justice and democracy - and to appreciate how hard he fought for the rights of every Texan and every American.

I'm old-fashioned beyond my years.

The journey from not knowing to knowing was his work. He was selling his desire to learn about a subject.

A small state increases by concord; the greatest falls gradually to ruin by dissension.