One of the trials of life is that we do not usually receive immediately the full blessing for righteousness or the full cursing for wickedness.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

You are free to choose, but you are not free to alter the consequences of your decisions.

Some of the greatest battles you will face will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.

Thoughts lead to acts, acts lead to habits, habits lead to character - and our character will determine our eternal destiny.

When we put God first, all other things fall into their proper place or drop out of our lives.

The way to feel better about your own situation is to improve someone else’s circumstances.

Inspiring music may fill the soul with heavenly thoughts, move one to righteous action, or speak peace to the soul.

Sleep: the stepchild of Death.

'But even I know that in your line of work, there's a difference between being a volunteer and being volun-told.'

Every age is blind to its own worst madness.

BS is just what it stands for, an MS is More of the Same, and a PhD is Piled Higher and Deeper.

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

I believe that things happen for a reason. I think there are no coincidences in life.

Gardeners do first, read later. Why not? Plants are very gracious in accepting an apology.

If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

I do believe abstraction is and was meant to embody deep emotion. I believe that's its job, in the history of art.

Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful.