Education brightens a darkened world.

God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.

The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is stretched.

If, in the end, you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.

The more seriously we work on our own imperfections, the less we are judgemental of the imperfections of others.

We should certainly count our blessings, but we should also make our blessings count.

No love is ever wasted. Its worth does not lie in reciprocity.

The submission of one's will is really the only uniquely personal thing we have to place on God's altar. The many other things we 'give' are actually the things He has already given or loaned to us.

We should not assume; however, that just because something is unexplainable by us, it is unexplainable.

Trials and tribulations tend to squeeze the artificiality out of us, leaving the essence of what we really are and clarifying what we really yearn for.

You rock a sobbing child without wondering if today's world is passing you by, because you know you hold tomorrow tightly in your arms.

YOU will never know your STRENGTH until you overcome the WORST

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault.

…Do not discount the value of luck. It is a hidden and unseen attribute in a man that will save him when nothing else can— learn to embrace it.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end but rather that it shall never have a beginning.

Luck is the by-product of busting your fanny.

One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

Ready...set-y...spaghetti!

That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.

On the other hand, the seventies were drab. That is, I am utterly fascinated by the fifties and sixties.