Some intentionally injure others through mocking, sarcasm with no intent to help. Others are trying to help.

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.

Leadership cannot just go along to get along. Leadership must meet the moral challenge of the day.

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure.

It is useless to dabble in beauty. One must be utterly devoted to beauty, with every nerve of the body.

Novel writing wrecks homes.

You like the party?" "Is it in honor of anything?" "My cat's birthday." "Oh." She glanced around. "Where's your cat?" "I dont know. He ran away." -Magnus & Clary, pg.221-

You will find more saints are interested in antichrist than Christ.

Increasingly I've come to think that what's at the core of acting is thinking. Most people would say it's feeling.

Each of us lives within the universe - the prison - of his own brain.

Those who believe they can't repel the positive; they use the negative side of their talisman. Those who believe they can repel the negative; they use the positive side.

It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.