Encourage good music and art and literature in your homes. Homes that have a spirit of refinement and beauty will bless the lives of your children forever.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.

If you want to be happy you have to work to make it happen. You can't just wish for it and you can't put it in the hands of other people.

Times change, and right now what people need is, they need to be able to send their kids to college, they need to able to buy a house.

Dreams never wear you down.

If I feel like something's gonna be right, I invest in it, whatever it is.

When you think the night has seen your mind, That inside your twisted and unkind, Let me stand to show that you are blind. Please put down you hands cause I see you. I'll be you mirror.

Once you know something is wrong, you're responsible, whether you see it, or hear about it, and most particularly when you're a part of it.

The world's always been run by women.

The whole duty of man is embraced in the two principles of abstinence and patience: temperance in prosperity, and patient courage in adversity.

It's not my duty as an architect to look at it.