Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead.

If we have the truth, it cannot be harmed by investigation. If we have not the truth, it ought to be harmed.

In the service of the Lord it is not where but how you serve.

We get nearer to the Lord through music than perhaps through any other thing except prayer.

Motherhood is near to divinity. It is the highest, holiest service to be assumed by mankind. It places her who honors its holy calling and service next to the angels.

It is the eternal, inescapable law that growth comes only from work and preparation, whether the growth be material, mental, or spiritual. Work has no substitute.

Let us again clothe ourselves with these proved and sterling virtues - honesty, truthfulness, chastity, sobriety, temperance, industry, and thrift; let us discard all covetousness and greed.

Reduced to its lowest terms, the great struggle which now rocks the whole earth more and more takes on the character of a struggle of the individual versus the state.

Let us avoid debt as we would avoid a plague; where we are now in debt, let us get out of debt; if not today...tomorrow.

If the gospel is only for the learned, how few there are of us who could have any use for it.

I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood - human blood.

We must reject the lie of materialism. Your STUFF, does not dictate Your STATURE.

There is no such thing as an independent Christian.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, were automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

I don't *ever* write about real people. Art is supposed to be better than that. If you want a slice of life, look out the window.

The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

The poor man with industry is happier than the rich man in idleness.

Message to all rioters: put down your brick, put away the spray paint, and leave the cop cars alone; you're acting like soccer fans! It's embarrassing.

My dad is Greek and my mum Jamaican. My grandparents brought me up for most of my childhood, but I saw my mum and dad all the time.

Disappointment is temporary. Only your thought about it is permanent. Change your mind about what has disappointed you and you will change your life

First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.