One of the advantages of having lived a long time is that you can often remember when you had it worse. I am grateful to have lived long enough to have known some of the blessings of adversity.

There is no greater good in all the world than motherhood. The influence of a mother in the lives of her children is beyond calculation.

If you take each challenge one step at a time, with faith in every footstep, your strength and understanding will increase.

There is a divine purpose in the adversities we encounter every day. They prepare, they purge, the purify, and thus they bless.

Into every life there come the painful, despairing days of adversity.

One of the main problems in families today is that we spend less and less time together.... Time together is precious time-time needed to talk, to listen, to encourage, and to show how to do things.

Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

Faith is the power, obedience is the price, love is the motive, the Spirit is the key and Christ is the reason.

Success is usually earned by persevering and not becoming discouraged when we encounter challenges.

It is a denial of the divinity within us to doubt our potential and our possibilities.

Warning...well-loved stories are habit forming...

The Bible provocatively evokes desire.

I want to share in endless ways, My expression of love for you, I'm no longer the beast of burden, Twas lifted when I fell for you.

If we could be freed from our aversion to loss, our whole outlook on risk would change.

There must be an angel, Playing with my heart. And when I think that I'm alone, It seems there's more of us at home...

I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.

Opportunities are a tricky crop, with tiny flowers that are difficult to see and even more difficult to harvest.

Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome

Let us not love by words alone, but let us love until it hurts.

My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.