Everyone's life is an object lesson to others.

School is a drill for the battle of life. If you fail in the drill you will fail in the battle.

Be yourself, but always your better self.

I would rather trust my child to a serpent than to a teacher who does not believe in God.

Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities.

Let your first 'good morning' be to your Heavenly Father.

The truly educated man will always speak to the understanding of the most unlearned of his audience.

All our prayers are addressed in the handwriting of the heart.

There is no truth that has not its source in the Author of all truth.

Labor with the heart, when the heart is pure and true, is the noblest labor.

Say to your soul, 'Let no unclean thing enter here.'

A cloud is more real than all my thoughts.

Answers are almost always insufficient. They are almost always misleading.

I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

It's not an easy choice, but that's OK. Easy doesn't equal good. Difficulty doesn't equal bad. It's just life, is all.

I deeply regret those situations that have blemished the image of the University of Oklahoma, and I hope that I can rectify the embarrassment I have brought the university.

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fesh and honest. Whe you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

Match your goals with the people who can make them happen and start building the relationships

One of the great cliches of campaign journalism is the notion that American elections have long since ceased to be about issues and ideas.

A boat is safe in the harbor. But this is not the purpose of a boat.

Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.