As with all commandments, gratitude is a description of a successful mode of living. The thankful heart opens our eyes to a multitude of blessings that continually surround us.

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.

Forsake it in the morning. Do not ring it the next day.Make no commitment to comfort.

I am the proud owner of several complexes. But who isn’t? When you think about it, isn’t a person just a structure built in reaction to the landscape and the weather?

I believe in entrepreneurs. I believe in their ability to make positive change in the world.

God will dare to do the impossible in your life if you dare to step across the faith line.

I am my parents' daughter, and I always want to be. But I first wanted to make sure that I was standing on my own two feet.

Never forget that you only have one opportunity to make a first impression - with investors, with customers, with PR, and with marketing.

Many of the things the slow food people honor were innovations within historical times. Somebody had to be the first European to eat a tomato.

It is a very great mistake to imagine that the object of loyalty is the authority and interest of one individual man, however dignified by the applause or enriched by the success of popular actions.

Be yourself. A horse without the lancer is still a horse; a lancer without the horse is just a man.

The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond.