Marriage is a very sacred institution and should not be degraded by allowing every other type of relationship to be made equivalent to it.

Happiness doesn't result from what we get, but from what we give.

Don't let anyone turn you into a slave. You're a slave if you let the media tell you that sports and entertainment are more important than developing your brain.

Successful people don't have fewer problems. They have determined that nothing will stop them from going forward.

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

Through hard work, perseverance and a faith in God, you can live your dreams.

I think one of the keys to leadership is recognizing that everybody has gifts and talents. A good leader will learn how to harness those gifts toward the same goal.

You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

Do your best and let God do the rest.

Resist this war on God, freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Over the years my mother's steadfast faith in God has inspired me, particularly when I had to perform extremely difficult surgical procedures or when I found myself faced with my own medical scare.

And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness.

Mrs Beaumont shrugged. ‘Dougie travelled light in life, ’ she said. ‘He knew it was people who were important.

Schools often get the teachers they deserve!

Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.

I tried to think but nothing happened!

There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication.

The voices on the record, that was trying to treat my voice like guitar players treat guitar tones.

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own.

There's so many inspiring people out there.

The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head.