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.

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

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.

Always remember that your humanity is what will touch the people of the world.

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.

But it's for every writer to decide his own pace, and the pace varies with the writer and the work

Smile your best smile at everyone you see. Think about all the things you have to be thankful for... and smile. The world will smile with you.

Go, and never darken my towels again

Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals

Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.

Jealousy is not a nice feeling, I hate feeling jealous. But if you can admit it and laugh at yourself, then that's a good way of dealing with your feelings.

Ashram means a community of men of religion. I feel that an ashram was a necessity of life for me.

From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.