All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.

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.

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.

You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing.

I had one of those headaches. It kept pounding and got into that crazy realm where the guillotine seems like a good idea.

It must be poor life that achieves freedom from fear.

Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.

Capital punihsment: That without the Capital get the punishment.

Nature which governs the whole will soon change all things which you see, and out of their substance will make other things and again other things... in order that the world may be ever new.

Jim Crow is alive and it's dressed in a Brooks Brothers suit, my friend, instead of a white robe.

In a garden you can find, quiet thoughts that calm the mind.

The enemy is here, and if we do not whip him, he will whip us.

The media is the great middleman. Trump doesn't need a middleman to get his message out. Trump's crowds are five blocks long.

The best preparation for a better life next year is a full, complete, harmonious, joyous life this year.