Make the man within your living ideal.

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.

Don't worry about meaning. If a story's any good, it can't help but have meaning. Let the PhDs tell you what your story means.

The Church is going to have to recognise that secularisation is not the cause of their decline, it is the result of it.

...a tall, gaunt man with small narrow eyes set deep in his skull like two old sisters trying to spy out of the windows of their house without being noticed themselves.

Look to the past to see what the future holds.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

Should National Security Issues be decided by a Local Referendum?

Looking at traditional marriages, it seems the surest way for a woman to be alone is to get married.

As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame.

Love and death are the great gifts that are given to us; mostly they are passed on unopened.