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.

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

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.

The saints shall persevere in holiness, because God perseveres in grace.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.

We do have some people that have never voted before.

Believe nothing, not even yourself.

The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration.

God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country.

Almost everybody thinks about philosophy, even if they don't realize it's philosophy and even if they have no sense of the difficulty of the problems, the array of possible answers.

Life offers more than one chance, Cathy, you know that.