Exhorting his students: Be faithful to the moral principles of your religion.

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.

The devil attacks you today, because you have got a future. He wants to destroy you for that very reason, because he is scared of your future acts and exploits.

Try to stop Rewinding and Fast Forward into something better.

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

The miracle of life is enough for me to believe in miracles.

My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life.

I think of a film as being like a toy train.

You want bold? Ask the hundreds of defensive backs I ran over during my career if they think I'm bold.

I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway.

I want to welcome folks to poetry, especially those who may have previously felt unwelcome; I want to celebrate everyone who is trying to make sense of this world through poetry the way I try to.

When you try to bring a story to life, it starts in your head and you see possibilities for it, but it's just one damn thing after another.