I believe that God has opened up these treasures on intelligence to enhance His purposes on the earth.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.

There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

One of the main problems in families today is that we spend less and less time together.... Time together is precious time-time needed to talk, to listen, to encourage, and to show how to do things.

Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.

Virtues untie the knots that life could sometimes bring our way and they glide us through easily.

We cannot always build a future for our youth, but we can always build our youth for the future.

He who doesn't fear his own imagination...is not worthy to envision.

No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression.

Pray five times a day for peace. Peace in your life, peace in your spirit, peace in your family, peace in your community, in your city but most importantly peace in this world.

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.

Success is the inner satisfaction and peace of mind that come from knowing I did the best I was capable of doing for the group.

So far this spring, 59 American communities have been flattened by tornadoes. Nobody has helped.

Perseverance is king.

I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.