The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.

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.

All art is a form of vulnerability because at least part of the artist goes into the piece.

Random thoughts that fly away. Where words has no place to stay. Let it be right where they are. Let the work of art preserve its life.

Such a mysterious business, motherhood. How brave a woman must be to embark on it.

If the student fails to learn the teacher fails to teach.

My life is my message.

I don't think the special counsel can avoid that question based upon the president's Donald Trump own statements. But I'm not charging obstruction of justice.

Over all crowds there seems to float a vague distress, an atmosphere of pervasive melancholy, as if any large gathering of people creates an aura of terror and pity.

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

Of all the errors one could make, God's gospel plan is the wrong thing to be wrong about.

Avarice starves its possessor to fatten those who come after, and who are eagerly awaiting the demise of the accumulator.