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

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.

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

We perhaps need to snatch happiness in little pieces, learning to recognize the elements of happiness and then treasuring them while they last.

The divinity of thy soul is spark of divine-self.

I too had thoughts once of being an intellectual, but I found it too difficult.

The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously.

The key things I learned as a hospital administrator are to be organized, communicate, and be flexible.

Nothing's occurring in animation - you manufacture everything.

Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.

I learned, one, you shouldn't ever quit. And I learned, two, you'll never be able to explain it to anybody

Set your goals high; make friends with different kinds of people; enjoy simple pleasures. Stand on high ground; sit on level ground; walk on expansive ground.

The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.

I get inspired by creativity, when people are together. You know what I mean, there's a certain synergy when people work together.