It is a bad business, dealing in lottery tickets ... Riches got in such a hasty manner never wear well.

No influence is so powerful as that of the mother.

The temple of our purest thoughts is silence.

It requires but a few threads of hope, for the heart that is skilled in the secret, to weave a web of happiness.

Rugged strength and radiant beauty-- These were one in Nature's plan; Humble toil and heavenward duty-- These will form the perfect man.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

There can be no education without leisure; and without leisure, education is worthless.

Water is the grand epic of creation; and there is not a human soul but feels the influence of its majesty, its power, or its beauty.

If your love for another person doesn’t include loving yourself then your love is incomplete.

At the dealership, I pulled out the sieve and toyed with it threateningly. When the salesman was ready for me, I held it up, told him I was not a tourist and demanded a large discount.

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.

“Your Tim is so unmistakably a healthy extravert type. Mens stulta in corpore sano, and all that.”“Exactly, ” she agreed.

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".

We should strive to develop within ourselves the traits of character of the Savior.

It is worth a lot of bother to be able to think properly.

Maybe the less pain we inflict on our bodies, the more beautiful our bodies will look to us

I was raised by a mother who was a Sunday school teacher and a father who worked hard. Together they taught me to give back.

Our government makes the simple promise of a secure retirement to every American who works for many years and contributes to our retirement benefit system.