Adversity itself may lead toward and not away from God and spiritual enlightenment; and privation may prove a source of strength if we can but keep a sweetness of mind and spirit.

Let us realize that: the privilege to work is a gift, the power to work is a blessing, the love of work is success!

I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind.

The greatest work we will ever do will be within the walls of our home.

There should be no yelling in the home unless there is a fire.

Your thoughts are the architects of your destiny.

Find a purpose in life so big it will challenge every capacity to be at your best.

Being a parent is the greatest trust that has been given to human beings.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

True happiness comes only by making others happy.

I think it must be apparent to every thinking mind that the noblest of all professions is that of teaching, and that upon the effectiveness of that teaching hangs the destiny of nations.

I never knew what it was to crave a woman’s touch. Or to hunger for a woman’s kiss.” “And now you do?” she asked hesitantly.“Since I met you, Corinne Bishop, I’ve been thinking of little else.

To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.

When you give your weakness permission to be because you understand that it is simply an expression of your strength, it tends to no longer be a weakness.

When it goes wrong you feel like cutting your throat but you go on. You don't let anything get you down so much that it beats you or stops you.

There is abundant reason to believe that optimism - big, little, and in between - is useful to a person because positive expectations can be self-fulfilling.

You show me a boy who brings a snake home to his mother and I'll show you an orphan.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire, the United Nations is a disunited collection of regimes, many of which do not represent the nations they govern.

The happiness of the tender heart is increased by what it can take away from the wretchedness of others.

Republicans spent too much money, borrowed too much money, earmarked too much. In this race, I'm the only guy who hasn't spent time in Washington.

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.