You have the choice of deliberately directing your thinking, or allowing other forces to dictate your desires and attitudes.

Pure motives are prerequisite to the ability to call down the powers of heaven. The Lord will not sustain your efforts to achieve, excel or receive special blessings if your desires are vain.

If you are not realizing your desires, you are not desiring in faith with all your heart.

So I ask you, can you walk a mile? Every day, rain or shine, pain or gain, because you know you have to just to stay alive, just to breathe. Can you walk that mile?

There was something horribly depressing, she felt, about watching the weather report. That life could be planned like the perfect summer picnic drained it of spontaneity.

This machine was a failure to the extent that it could not fly. In other respects it was a very important and necessary stepping stone.

Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity.

O fortunate bride, who never again will become elated after childbirth! O lucky older wife, who has been cured of feeling unwanted!

Sometimes we think, "We're the only people who see it this way," but that's really not the case.

If it's painful, you become willing not just to endure it but also to let it awaken your heart and soften you. You learn to embrace it.

A truly great artist has many talents.

O pure of heart! Thou needest not ask of me what this strong music in the soul may be!