I believe unless we have ambition to accomplish things and to do things that we amount to but very little in the battle of life.

If we are striving, if we are working, if we are trying, to the best of our ability, to improve day by day, then we are in the line of our duty.

I do not believe we accomplish very much in life unless we are enthusiastic, unless we are in earnest, and unless we practice what we preach.

I assert with confidence that the law of success, here and hereafter, is to have a humble and a prayerful heart, and to work, work, work.

There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart, judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ

Thank God we are not to be judged by the opinions of our fellows, but by the work that we do.

If you desire the spirit of God you must keep the commandments of God.

I value all things as nothing in comparison with having the spirit of God to guide me.

Day-dreams without work do not amount to anything; it is the actual work that counts.

Let every man feel that he is the architect and builder of his own life, and that he proposes to make a success of it by working.

The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership

Rare indeed is the seed who can bury its nightmares & still stem & blossom into its wildest dreams.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.

Here in Europe they had a Dark Age so extensive, radical and obliterative that everyone forgot how to speak Latin.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness.

When you're sick, you present your medicare card, not your credit card.

When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt in my mouth. I visualize each and every stroke.

Fiction is a web of lies that attempts to entangle the truth. And autobiography may well be the reverse: data tricked up and rearranged to invent a fictive self.

Everybody was up to something, especially, of course, those who were up to nothing.

When a worker has reached a stable state, further training will not help him.