One of greatest thieves this world has is procrastination, and he is still at large. Are we aiding and abetting the criminal?

Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion.

Punctuality is closely related to faithfulness and dependability. Being tardy can be linked to uninterest, apathy, slothfulness and procrastination.

The best way to improve our lives is to improve our thoughts.

All temptations can be handled easily when we know how, because no temptation is a temptation at all unless we are entertaining it.

It is a great paradox - almost everyone wants to improve his circumstances but almost no one wants to improve himself.

Those who wallow around in the sickness of their immorality and degeneracy get very little joy out of life here and certainly not much promise is held out for them hereafter.

Satan has no power over us except as we give it to him. God never forces us to do right, and Satan has no power to force us to do wrong.

Perhaps punctuality is a quality made even more valuable because it is found in so few people. Punctuality is not usually thought of in our day as a major virtue.

We insist on near perfection in everyone except ourselves. But if our course is questioned we become offended.

If I were asked to give the best idea of which I am capable, it would be that we should get out of the junk business and then start laying up treasures in heaven.

The real happiness is self-contentment.

She feared God may not deliver her out of this mess, especially if He had a greater plan.

Sometimes the biggest lies we tell are to ourselves.

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

When things happen to you in the worst way, you live with it, you go over it, you think, 'What else could I have done?

When I began teaching you hardly could find a university in America or a college where they would teach either Jewish studies or Holocaust studies.

It seems dangerous to be a portrait artist who does commissions for clients because everyone wants to be flattered, so they pose in such a way that there's nothing left of truth.

Some of the most important stories don't lend themselves to television treatment.

I didn't have a big fat Greek wedding, but I have a lot of fat Greek friends.

Music is interior decoration.